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  COMET-SUN APOCALYPSE OMGEEZ!!! Also, Bowie.Jul 13, 2011 7:17 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:In testing out a new theoretically ergonomic drawing arrangement, I ended up drawing a picture of Selenis, somehow looking rather David Bowie-ish. You can click this tiny version for the full-size one in the episode 13 gallery:
 
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Galleries can always be accessed from the "episodes" link in the site's top menu!
 
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I noticed a Space.com article overnight that tried to make a NASA article sound much more dramatic, and probably overstated the facts, strictly speaking. Not that anyone else we know of does this on a regular basis... >_> Anyway the Space.com article is Comet's Death by Sun Photographed for First Time; the actual NASA article they got their stuff from is First-Ever View of a Sungrazer Comet in Front of the Sun--since they didn't actually catch what happened to the comet, exactly. Sure, it probably evaporated, but only crazy non-scientists would leap to that conclusion and repost the suggestion as fact! Whee!
 
The comet was caught by NASA's SOHO Sun-studying craft, which you may recall I wrote a bit about in mid-May. It is very good at spotting all these comets plunging toward the Sun--and boy, I guess there are a lot of them.
 
And a nice still image of its approach:
 
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image by ESA/NASA (source)
 
So there, I am such a big man I will spend a blog entry trying to one-up another site in swiping and regurgitating NASA's news. Yessssss. But anyway SOHO's stuff makes for some nice pretty pictures.
 
 
 
 
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