Check out these images of a comet diving towards the sun! We first reported on the comet yesterday, and as it continued its trip towards our star it became visible in the SOHO spacecraft’s LASCO C2 imager. Doesn’t it look gorgeous? It has since disappeared behind LASCO C2’s occulter – a disk that blocks out the bright center of the sun – and that’s probably the last we’ll see of it. While we’ll keep watching to see if it survives the encounter, it will in all likelihood vaporize as it gets closer to the sun. What a way to go!
Sun news producer and author Raúl Cortés: https://earthsky.org/author/raul-cortes/
Sun news producer: Deborah Byrd https://earthsky.org/author/deborahbyrd/
Sun news producer: Will Triggs https://earthsky.org/author/willtriggs/
Read the sun news at EarthSky.org: https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates/
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