The First Ever Video Of A Comet Crashing Into The Sun

[Cyberia]

Until the early morning of July 6 this year no-one had ever managed to capture footage of a comet colliding with the sun.

 

But three whole seconds of on-the-spot action from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory and all that has changed.

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2022465/Blink-youll-miss-The-video-showing-comet-crashing-sun.html

 

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[Turtle]

so while comets hitting the sun are cool, this is not the first picture/video of such an event. yet another example of a non-scientific media hype. i have watched several such strikes this year alone at spaceweather.com & a short search finds similar events recorded back to 1998. it may be this is the first recorded by Nasa's relatively new Solar Dynamics Observatory.

 

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=21&month=10&year=2010

 

 

QuickTime Animation of Two Comets Hitting the Sun

-1998

 

comets hitting sun movies from SOHO