NASA SDO - Lovejoy's Journey around the Sun

Comet Lovejoy traveled behind the Sun and reemerged as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Credit: NASA SDO

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[arifchasan]

i am coming here because google+

[weezereire83]

The little comet that could.

[pauloads]

Bacana chegou a sair intacto so sol esse cometá

[laelamarie1]

already follow you on facebook - love this!

[neo211]

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

[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....

[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..

[fromtheBOP]

@arifchasan me too

[sepdet13]

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

Happy mythological symbolism, everyone!

[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. :) 

[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

[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.

[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."

[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?