NASA SDO - Lovejoy's Journey around the Sun

[pauloads]

Bacana chegou a sair intacto so sol esse cometá

[laelamarie1]

already follow you on facebook - love this!

[chris7777777777777]

There is no way that's a comet. Comets are made mostly of ice and rock. That's a burning meteor



[inachu]

Find out what he comet was made of so our future rockets can be made of same substance to resist the suns heat.

[rorosamy]

look like sperm, make you think dosnt it....

[neo211]

@rorosamy everything around us is simply a reflection of us on a different scale and always altered through our own perception. =)

[TheRuyber]

Very good!

Sérgio Ruyber

[DensBucs]

Lovejoy comet is looking for one pass around before he goes down... That thing must be packed full and dense of ice to survive a pass by the sun like that.

[mikaplayboy]

this comet look like small o_o

[CattleCluj]

By the way comet Elenin was supposed to bring doomsday, right? Well it didn't because it melted/disintegrated at perihelion. Now comet Elenin's diameter was said to be around 3-5 Km (way larger than Lovejoy's 500 m) and it still melted on it's perihelion. Does anyone know Elenin's perihelion distance? Just to compare how far it was from the Sun when it melted and how close this Lovejoy was and it survived. I really don't think Elenin was as close to the sun as Lovejoy.

[CattleCluj]

I think there are some huge measurements errors. They say this comet has a 500 m diameter. Now how did it pass through the Sun's corona at 140000 km from the surface without melting ? I mean the Sun is too damn hot and that 140000 km are too close.

[VortexatGOZIE]

makes u see the bigger picture in a newer way..

[sepdet13]

I guess you can't kill love and joy just before Christmas. A splendid bit of serendipity trying very hard to convince us of miracles. :)

[sepdet13]

@sepdet13 And come to think of it, doesn't Kreutz mean "cross" in German?

Happy mythological symbolism, everyone!

[Th3oryOf3v3ryThing]

I had to give Lovejoy a thumbs down for a failed suicide attempt. Ok, fine... I admit I just did it to feel special. Sorry Lovejoy :(

[andyrious]

wow.. lovejoy

[jumpingjay2000]

For all you earthlings wondering what I was doing, I was warming my ass up, space is some cold shit!

Love,

Lovejoy

[TheChiTownGangstaaa]

SO let me get this straight.... A Comet WENT THROUGH THE CORE OF THE SUN and survived, meaning, it went from one side, through it, and out the other? WTF?

[ratzskinakie]

@TheChiTownGangstaaa No, a source said, "Comet Lovejoy plunged through the sun's corona at about 7 p.m. EST (midnight GMT on Dec. 16), coming within 87,000 miles (140,000 kilometers) of our star's surface."

[comeonewtf]

that is not a comet

[ratzskinakie]

@comeonewtf Lovejoy belongs to a class of comets known as Kreutz sungrazers, whose orbits bring them very close to the sun. Researchers have 18 instruments on five different satellites watching this comet since November 27. I think it's safe to say that these scientist know more about what they have been observing than a random person's assumption from a 33 second video on youtube.

[nagasako7]

This is me giving a fuck.

-Lovejoy

[1983noddy]

wow... Is that in real time? If it is then it's moving at some considerable speed!

[PghBuffaloSoldiers]

That comet has mad swag!

[1983noddy]

wow... Is that in real time? If it is then it's moving at some considerable speed!

[shawncoons]

@1983noddy Not real time. Check out the clock and time stamp in the lower left corner.

[1983noddy]

@shawncoons oh yeah.... doh. Watched it on my phone so i didn't see that :)

[bokyo74]

lil comet say's to the sun "ha-ha you think you can be burn me?" see yah next time.

[bokyo74]

@bokyo74 then big Sun say's " Oh Darn - I miss it just by the hair "

[VaMoneyCow]

reemerging @ 0:21 .....I don't understand, reemerging from the sun?

[SuperAnchos]

Wow, and I complain about the heat when I drive to Vegas.

[Jessycormier]

These small videos are awesome :)

[mclive29]

This is badass

[ziploc100]

The little comet that could!

[mijgame]

Twitter :P

[MarkySwift]

The history channel will be onto this soon enough!

Because there is no denying that this, is an alien revisiting and all the evidence they will need.

... lol

[brentlostak]

@MarkySwift so you think this was an alien?

[MarkySwift]

@brentlostak nah, i'm almost certain it's just a comet :P

[eyunu]

some people will say it is alien...

[zerooneboy12345]

wouldn't you expect something that close to be drawn in by the Sun's Gravity? also, I'm wondering why it's trajectory, judging by the tail, is so erratic, is that caused by the Sun's flares? if it is, then that brings me back to the first question, if it's that close why wasn't it drawn in? I'm not that smart so just humor me and I'll be happy.....I wonder how close it was and how fast it must have been going, I'm sure there's an equation that says it's velocity was sufficient to escape gravity

[deepcut66]

@zerooneboy12345 It was about 90,000 miles away at closest and the sun's gravity will have affected it but it was doing around a million miles per hour and doesn't weigh much so was pulled around the sun and catapulted on, rather than pulled in. It's path may have looked erratic due to thermal distortion.

[arifchasan]

i am coming here because google+

[scidav87]

@arifchasan Love Google!!!

[brentlostak]

@arifchasan and how does that feel?

[fromtheBOP]

@arifchasan me too

[dark4krad]

Amazing! Thats a tough little comet. I like its never say die attitude. xD

[sasukejemino]

So far no dislikes :D

[weezereire83]

The little comet that could.

[FreddieAmadeus]

Amazing.....................

[tk291100]

just passing by to say hello to friend SUN

[thekillermurat1989]

snakee sun :))

[WebsiteToSell]

I thought it was toast for sure. The saga goes on. Thanks for the update :)

[Mindkill420]

I'm curious as to how much mass Lovejoy lost as a result of it's close pass to the Sun.

[AntiProtonBoy]

Lovejoy survived? What a little trooper!

[DoveDancing]

Wow, that's a tuff little cometa

[TrueHamal]

Lovejoy passed intact by the Sun! It's unbelievable! What we saw watching just in front of the Sun and straight on was only a perspective effect. Thank you so much for sharing these data. They are wonderful at least. Best regards.