Comet Lovejoy
Spiral_72
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This is remarkable:
The story: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/12jan_cometlovejoy/
Terry Lovejoy discovered a huge comet headed right for the sun, then on Dec 16th the comet flew right through our sun's atmosphere!
It caught the attention of many astronomer types including NASA who trained their Solar dynamics observatory on the area to capture the following videos!
GIF animation from NASA's STEREO-B: http://spaceweather.com/comets/lovejoy_16dec11/EUVI_B_lovejoy.gif
links will immediately ask you to open / download the video:
Entering the sun's atmosphere: science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2011/12/16/comet_whoosh.m4v
Exiting the atmosphere: science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2011/12/16/lovejoyemerges.m4v
The story: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/12jan_cometlovejoy/
Terry Lovejoy discovered a huge comet headed right for the sun, then on Dec 16th the comet flew right through our sun's atmosphere!
It caught the attention of many astronomer types including NASA who trained their Solar dynamics observatory on the area to capture the following videos!
GIF animation from NASA's STEREO-B: http://spaceweather.com/comets/lovejoy_16dec11/EUVI_B_lovejoy.gif
links will immediately ask you to open / download the video:
Entering the sun's atmosphere: science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2011/12/16/comet_whoosh.m4v
Exiting the atmosphere: science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2011/12/16/lovejoyemerges.m4v
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