NASA SDO Captures Image of Mysterious Object Refuelling From Sun [VIDEO]

Nasa's space telescope has caught footage of a mysterious object that was apparently flying in the plasma, close to the sun. The object appeared to have an extended tube that was connected to the sun.

Speculation that the object in the footage appeared like a huge planet, star or UFO is unlikely. The apparent extended tube does give the appearance that object is connected or 'refuelling' itself from the star's surface. The video was captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory and put on YouTube.

Nasa has a more ordinary and scientific explanation for the strange, black orb. NASA Scientists believe that it is a solar "prominence" or "filament" - a feature extending from the sun which forms over the course of a day, and can extend hundreds of thousands of miles into space.

Scientists are still puzzled as to why these features form. The "dark" parts are cooler than the surrounding solar matter. There may be strong electro-magnetic forces at work.

C Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre, said: "Filaments appear to be dark because they're cooler in relation to what's in the background."

"When you look at it from the edge of the sun, what you see is this spherical object and you're actually looking down the funnel."