That's no moon...Chewy hit the reverse thruster!

Could the Empire be stealing our light from right under our noses!?

Or is it just a burst of solar plasma?

http://news.discovery.com/space/is-that-the-death-star-suckling-on-solar-plasma-120315.html

In a spectacular and intriguing sight, a solar prominence reaching high into the corona layer of the Sun.  The blast coming from the Chromosphere just over the Photosphere stand at about 24,000 Kelvins.  The report says "24,000 Kelvin (or degrees Celsius)" which is wrong.

degrees Celsius = Kelvin - 273.15

degrees Celsius = 24,000 - 273.15

grand total of

23,726.58 degrees Celsius!

approx.

42739.844 degrees Fahrenheit!

View by a UV filter we see the wavelengths of the corona clearly emitting while the different wavelengths of the Chromosphere appear darker due to the difference in wavelength radiation difference.