Scatterings
Astronomers Eye Sungrazing Comet
Images of the comet Lovejoy passing near the sun were captured by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Sun-Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation instruments.
(Top) Comet Lovejoy over Santiago, Chile, at dawn on 22 December 2011. (Bottom) The comet as seen from the International Space Station on 21 December 2011.
(Top) Yuri Beletski/ESO; (Bottom) Dan Burbank/NASA
Images of the comet Lovejoy passing near the sun were captured by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Sun-Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation instruments. They are part of the NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory collection of images (arranged as a video) of the comet passing near the sun. Visit www.nrl.navy.mil/media/videos/comet-lovejoy-grazes-the-sun to view the video.
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