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08-05-2016, 02:59 AM
A comet got vaporized by the sun and a spacecraft watched it happen
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A comet speeding at a blistering 1.3 million miles per hour through our solar system met its end this week when it flew too close to the sun.
The comet was spotted on August 1 by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft as the cosmic ball of ice and dust was hurtling toward the sun.
SEE ALSO: Here are 31 of the best space photographs of the year (http://mashable.com/2016/07/26/best-space-photos-contest-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
While the gif of the comet's death plunge appears to show it falling into the sun, that's **t the full story.*
The comet didn't quite run headlong into the star. Instead, it got "vaporized" by the sun's extreme environment as it whipped around it, NASA said. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/comet-death-dive-to-the-sun-gif/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A comet speeding at a blistering 1.3 million miles per hour through our solar system met its end this week when it flew too close to the sun.
The comet was spotted on August 1 by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft as the cosmic ball of ice and dust was hurtling toward the sun.
SEE ALSO: Here are 31 of the best space photographs of the year (http://mashable.com/2016/07/26/best-space-photos-contest-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
While the gif of the comet's death plunge appears to show it falling into the sun, that's **t the full story.*
The comet didn't quite run headlong into the star. Instead, it got "vaporized" by the sun's extreme environment as it whipped around it, NASA said. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/comet-death-dive-to-the-sun-gif/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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