**BREAKING: NASA CONFIRMS “HOLOGRAM” SUN DURING ECLIPSE – INTERNET DIVIDED**

BREAKING: NASA CONFIRMS “HOLOGRAM” SUN DURING ECLIPSE – INTERNET DIVIDED

A viral video claiming to show a “glitch” in the Sun’s corona during Monday’s total solar eclipse has sent conspiracy theorists into a frenzy. The clip, which has been viewed over 15 million times on X (formerly Twitter), appears to show a brief pixelated square overlaying the Sun’s edge for exactly 0.3 seconds. Hashtags like #SunIsAHologram and #DeceptionInTheSky are trending.

Rating: FALSE

The Reality Check: Stop signaling the tinfoil hat brigade. The video is real, but the “glitch” is not a hologram. Our investigation traced the footage back to a live feed from a high-speed camera operated by a known astronomy blogger in Oregon. The pixelation is a classic compression artifact from the H.265 codec used to stream the 8K resolution.

• Why it happened: The extreme contrast between the blacked-out moon and the intensely bright, dynamic corona overloaded the video encoder. For that fraction of a second, the algorithm dropped a data frame to maintain the stream, resulting in the blocky “glitch.”
• Official Statement: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center confirmed to us that the Sun is, in fact, still a massive ball of incandescent plasma and not a screen-saver. “We can assure the public the Sun has not crashed and requires no reboot,” a spokesperson joked.
• The Real Danger: While this glitch is harmless, experts warn that staring at unverified filtered footage during an eclipse can still damage your phone camera sensor.

Verdict: The Sun is real. The matrix is not breaking. Go outside (with proper glasses), not into a rabbit hole.