NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured an un-named comet’s fiery demise on 6th of July when the comet melted completely as it was flying into the Sun.
Space agency NASA said that the comet, which was primarily made up of ice, zoomed in from behind the sun and evaporated completely because of intense heat and radiation from the star.
While a comet’s crashing into the Sun is not unusual, no such event was captured ever before, NASA said.
A joint NASA-European Space Agency spacecraft, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), also captured the comet's demise.
Speaking on the topic, SOHO project scientist Bernhard Fleck said, “This is one of the brightest sun-grazers SOHO has recorded, similar to the Christmas comet of 1996."
Sun-grazing comets (comets that pass very close to the Sun) are relatively common and are also called Kreutz comets, after the 19th century astronomer Heinrich Kreutz who first illustrated that those comets were related to one another.
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