Tuesday, October 29, 2013

A Doomed Comet Hurdling Toward the Sun

A Doomed Comet Hurdling Toward the Sun

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), launched in 1995, stares mostly at . . . yeah. The sun. But when its instruments are trying to image other things near the sun, all that light gets kind of overwhelming. So sometimes instruments on the SOHO just block the sun out and turn their attention to other things. Like this sungrazer comet.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/KG3RBgLlIS4/a-doomed-comet-hurdling-toward-the-sun-1453114630
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