On Dec 17, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Darren Addy wrote: > This is one of the coolest things you will probably see in your life. > Largest sungrazing comet seen yet. Thought to be ill-fated as it > skimmed past the sun. Somehow it survived being immersed in the > several million-degree solar corona for almost an hour and has now > re-emerged back into the views of the LASCO and SECCHI coronagraphs, > almost as bright as before! The only noteable exception is that it > appears to have lost its tail, as you can see in the image.
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows it too. I thought it interesting because the head is on one side of the sun and a large part of its tail is still on the other side. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111217.html Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
