Cyberia Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 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 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 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 CraigD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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