STEREO Images of Sungrazing Comet (VIDEO)

University of California - Berkeley

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This is the comet and its tail as observed by NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft between March 12 and 14, 2010. The left side is STEREO B (orbiting behind the Earth) and the right is STEREO A (ahead). The outer images are from Cor2, the middle ones are from Cor1 and the inner ones of the solar disk are from the EUVI instruments onboard STEREO.

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