The Halloween Comet – the sun’s dinner!

The Halloween Comet – the sun’s dinner!

Guess what the sun had for dinner this week? Give up? Okay, I’ll let you in on the story… Our local star ate a comet.

NASA’s orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory had been studying comet ATLAS S1 approach the sun, using its occulter to block out the light from our star’s disk and astronomers got to witness its last moments.

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