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Comet Hits the Sun; Solar Flare Erupts

05/12/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

By John Metcalfe – “This one-of-a-kind space video, captured yesterday by NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, appears to show a kamikaze comet smashing into the sun to provoke a fiery coronal mass ejection. In reality, though, it’s probably coincidence.

The comet stands virtually no chance of making it to the surface of the intensely burning solar body; heat waves would have melted it and broken it down into hot space dust millions of kilometers away. The comet’s destruction seems to be confirmed in observations made by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which show no sign of it at the moment the sun flung its wad of magnetic plasma into space.” Read more.

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