New Comet
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A newly-discovered comet is diving toward the sun, and it will probably not survive the encounter. Click here to view a movie of the death plunge.

Japanese comet hunter Masanori Uchina first noticed the sundiver in coronagraph images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on Nov. 13th. At the time it was a dim and distant speck, but now the comet is brightening rapidly as it approaches the hot sun. The bright glare of the sun hides these events from human eyes, but not from certain spacecraft: Join SOHO for a ringside seat.

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