This is one of the coolest things you will probably see in your life. Largest sungrazing comet seen yet. Thought to be ill-fated as it skimmed past the sun. Somehow it survived being immersed in the several million-degree solar corona for almost an hour and has now re-emerged back into the views of the LASCO and SECCHI coronagraphs, almost as bright as before! The only noteable exception is that it appears to have lost its tail, as you can see in the image.
Story: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/Comet-Lovejoy-A-Solar-Survivor-135743163.html Video 1: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/data_query_search_url?Session=web&Resolution=2&Display=Movie&Start=2011-12-14&Finish=2011-12-16&Instrument=LASCO&Detector=C3 Video 2: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/data_query_search_url?Session=web&Resolution=2&Display=Movie&Start=2011-12-15&Finish=2011-12-16&Instrument=LASCO&Detector=C2 Somehow it survived being immersed in the several million-degree solar corona for almost an hour and has now re-emerged back into the views of the LASCO and SECCHI coronagraphs, almost as bright as before! The only noteable exception is that it appears to have lost its tail, as you can see in the image. Another very cool close-up video of it coming out the backside of the sun on the spaceweather.com home page: http://www.spaceweather.com/ Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
