Comet Hits Sun

The Coronal Mass Ejection Was An Afterthought: Giant Comet Hits the Sun

The "Solar and Heliospheric Observatory":http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/ watched as a fairly bright comet plummeted towards the Sun, May 10-11, 2011. The comet, probably part of the "Kreutz family of comets":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...