Comet Death Dive Into Sun - Again

Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 14:30 in Astronomy & Space

An icy un-named comet plunged into the sun on July 5, 2011. A majority of these sungrazers (comets that travel very near the sun) come from what is believed to be fragments of one large comet that broke up several centuries ago.

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