A comet got vaporized by the sun and a spacecraft watched it happen
 

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.

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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...

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