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NASA's SOHO watches sun gobble up comet |
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April 12, 2010 |
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The destruction of a comet as it approached the sun was caught on camera Saturday by a long-lived space observatory. The comet, a stranger to astronomers, is now doomed to anonymous obscurity. The comet's death plunge was recorded by the sun-watching Solar and Heliospheric Observatory as the previously unknown icy wanderer barreled down on the sun from cosmic parts unknown, according to Spaceweather.com, a Web site dedicated to monitoring space weather. The comet appeared in SOHO images on Friday but by early this morning it had disappeared entirely, Spaceweather.com reported. This above image, taken early April 10, 2010, shows a newfound comet just before it is annihilated by the sun. Here, the comet is extremely bright as seen by SOHO. Shortly afterward, it dims noticeably and later disappears entirely. (MSNBC)
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