The End of Comet Lovejoy - Live on the NASA SDO Website
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Uploaded by camillasdo on Dec 15, 2011
As Comet Lovejoy moves toward perihelion this evening we will point SDO a little to the left of the Sun to try and see the tail of the comet in our telescopes.
This website will allow you to see those images and flip through them looking for the comet.
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/lovejoy.php
Select a wavelength on the right and a new window will open with the images available for that wavelength. The Sun will be on the right side of the window. The comet should move from the lower left corner and go behind the Sun a little above the equator.
Images from SDO are available soon after they are observed, but it takes about 30 minutes to move from the spacecraft to our computer at Goddard. We plan to off-point at 23:30 UTC (6:30 pm ET) and return to normal solar observing at 12/16 00:30 UTC (7:30 pm ET). We should see images starting by 7 pm ET.
For up-to-date notes check out NRL's Sungrazing Comets website:
http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=news%2Fbirthday_comt_BK#bottom
Credit: NASA STEREO, NASA/ESA SOHO, NRL SECCHI / Sungrazer & Camilla SDO
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billions of years on journey??
vinayshah17 2 months ago
Lovejoy survived the sundive....
Lovejoy flew only 140,000 km over the stellar surface
MVT7100 2 months ago
Nope it survived
tauriuxs12 2 months ago
I've tried the links and none of them work. I home school and this is great for Science class. If only we could go to the links above.
jetlamindz 2 months ago
lol...electrically charged objects don't evaporate.
Thyalwaysseek 2 months ago
Super Camilla :) Exciting Day for Comet Lovejoy...rather exciting for us ...not so much for the Comet :)
scfiwriter1 2 months ago