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Sungrazing comets, captured by the LASCO C1 and C2 Coronographs on board the
SOHO spacecraft. A high resolution TIFF image can be found
here.
From the SOHO web page:
On Tuesday, 1998 June 2, telescopes on board the SOHO spacecraft viewed
two sungrazing comets following similar but not identical orbits, and
entering the tenuous outer atmosphere of the Sun --- the solar corona --
- never to reappear on the other side of the Sun.
Shortly after the comets disappeared behind the occulting disks of the
LASCO C1 and C2 coronagraphs, a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) with
an enormous erupting prominence appeared on the southwest (lower right)
limb of the Sun. (East and West are reversed in heliographic coordinates
to match the compass directions for an earthbound observer.) The
prominence eruption is visible in the SOHO EIT images.
SOHO Copyright and reproduction issues (reproduced from
the SOHO web page:
Use of SOHO images for public education efforts and non-commercial purposes is strongly encouraged and requires no expressed authorization. It is requested, however, that any such use properly attributes the source of the images as:
"Courtesy of SOHO [instrument name]1 consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA."
1 where [instrument name] is the instrument that provided the images.
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