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Spectacular night skies captured by photographer John White.
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Take five seconds and watch a comet hit the sun, followed by a coincidental coronal mass ejection. #GOODstuff
NASA’s Unbelievable Footage of a Comet Hitting the Sun
NASA’s Solar Heliospheric Observatory captured this footage of a comet hitting the sun, followed immediately by a massive explosion caused by solar winds, known as a coronal mass ejection. The synchronicity is actually coincidental, but the image is unforgettable.
Posted: October 5, 2011
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Region: Africa Site: Giza - Egypt Date: April 1997
The Moon and stars of Taurus (with the Pleiades) and Perseus accompany the spectacular view of Comet Hale-Bopp above the Great Pyramids of Giza in 1997, probably more than four thousand years since the comet’s last appearance.
Credit: John Goldsmith
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