Death of a Comet into the Sun 1st time ever caught on video (Live Video) July 6th 2011 - YouTube
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The death of a comet that plunged into the sun was
captured on camera this month for the first time
in history, scientists say.
The comet met its fiery demise on July 6 when it zoomed
in from behind the sun and melted into oblivion as it crashed
into the star. It was NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO),
a satellite orbiting Earth that studies the sun, which witnessed
the comet's death-blow.
One of the SDO spacecraft's high-definition imagers
"actually spotted a sun-grazing comet as it disintegrated over
about a 15 minute period (July 6, 2011), something never observed
before," SDO officials said. [See the observatory's image of the
comet death]
kb http://www.nasa.gov
captured on camera this month for the first time
in history, scientists say.
The comet met its fiery demise on July 6 when it zoomed
in from behind the sun and melted into oblivion as it crashed
into the star. It was NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO),
a satellite orbiting Earth that studies the sun, which witnessed
the comet's death-blow.
One of the SDO spacecraft's high-definition imagers
"actually spotted a sun-grazing comet as it disintegrated over
about a 15 minute period (July 6, 2011), something never observed
before," SDO officials said. [See the observatory's image of the
comet death]
kb http://www.nasa.gov
