Saturday, January 2, 2010

SpaceWeather.com | Australian Amateur Astronomer Alan Watson's Sungrazing Comet - January 2, 2010


SUNGRAZING COMET ALERT: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking a comet that is about to make a perilous close approach to the sun: movie, labels. Will the icy visitor survive? Click here for the latest image. (Note: The comet was discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Alan Watson in images taken by NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCi5enrAo_E