Sunday, March 25, 2012

The Sun destroys another comet

Comet SWAN was discovered a few days ago, and was found to be a Sun grazer, on an orbit that takes it perilously close to the Sun. On March 14, NASA's SOHO satellite watched as the comet took a death dive into the Sun, and never came back out.



Credit: NASA/SOHO

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