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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!"

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  1. Re:Finally!!! by jc42 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some asshat on facebook complained that the sun doesn't have a surface, ...

    Similarly, if you look closely enough at what appears to be your (skin) surface, you'll find that in reality it's nothing more substantive than a fuzzy cloud of electrons. Small neutral particles of about the same size as the electrons (neutrons, neutrinos, etc.) have no problem with this "surface", and pass through it as if it didn't exist.

    Whether something has a "surface" depends a lot on your definition of the term.

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