OK I just read this.
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newly discovered sungrazer comet was photographed approaching the sun during last week's solar eclipse before it evaporated into dust particles.
The comet was first spotted by Thai amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod in satellite data on December 13, a day before the eclipse,
NASA said on Saturday.
He was taking part in the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project — a citizen science project that invites anyone to search for new comets in images from the joint European Space Agency and NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO.
The comet, named C/2020 X3 (SOHO), is known as a Kreutz sungrazer, NASA said. This family of comets originated from
a large parent comet that broke up into smaller fragments well over a thousand years ago. The sungrazers continue to or
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OK a newly discovered Comet. This came from a large parent comet that broke up into smaller fragments well over a thousand years ago.
Ok how do they know it was a thousand years ago?????? Oh I know, they compared sky maps from today to back then. Ya, that's right.
