The Night Sky Guy

Kamikaze comet streaks in front of Sun

THere may be trillions of comets in our solar system but there is one less today. Check out this really cool video of a wayward comet that streaked the sun before plunging to its death. Solar watching satellites like NASA’s solar Dynmaics Observatory have been keeping an eye on solar activity for years now, and there have been many times where the cameras have caught comets diving into our star- they call them sungrazers. But what the cameras caught on July 5th was something different. We have never really seen the end game – the final moments of a comet’s life before it gets incinerated by the heat of the Sun. Now wwe have a glimpse of what happens in those final moments.

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