Once in a while, a comet hits the sun and our star goes all nomnomnom on it. SOHO – NASA’s Solar & Heliospheric Observatory – has captured a few, but never so spectacularly as in this video, recorded over last Tuesday and Wednesday.
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After launching an impact probe at comet Tempel 1 in 2005 and travelling 4.6 billion kilometres, the Deep Impact spacecraft has finally reached Hartley 2 as part as of its EPOXI mission. The trip was worth it: These shots are spectacular.
It’s gotta happen all the time, but it’s rarely captured on film. But this past Saturday, an unlucky comet found itself pointed right at the unforgiving maw of our sun. Guess how this ended?
