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Comet-Sun Impact Caught On Video

Posted by timothy on from the comet-denies-responsibility dept.

jomegat writes "NASA has released footage captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) showing a comet slamming into the surface of the sun. The impact created a huge splash as seen on the video, but the impact at the surface was blocked by an occluding disk that allows the SDO to image the sun's corona. It's still very impressive though!"

2 of 61 comments (clear)

  1. Re:One day you'll look to see I've gone by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a little black spot on the sun today.
    It's the same old thing as yesterday.

  2. Clearly Photoshopped. by Chardansearavitriol · · Score: 3, Funny

    We learned in Final Fantasy 7 that a comet impacting the sun would cause a supernova. Which I assure you we would have noticed.