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A sun-grazing comet zoomed a little too close to an erupting sun on June 10-11, 2024. The comet did not survive its close encounter with the sun’s powerful radiation.
The images were captured the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a space-based witness to hundreds of similar comet suicides.
The comet is probably a member of the Kreutz sun-grazer family. This is a class of comets discovered more than 100 years ago by the German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz. Scientists believe these comets, which always come from the same direction among the stars, are probably fragments of a much larger comet that may have broken up centuries ago.
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Images credit: SOHO/LASCO, AIA/SDO, nemesis maturity channel, helioviewer.org
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