A citizen scientist in the Czech Republic on Monday ID'd a new comet while examining an image captured by the exploratory SOHO spacecraft, which raises to 5,000 the number of comets it has helped discover, NASA said.
As it turns out, solar physicists from Stanford University have discovered that the Sun is "screaming". According to the American Academy of Audiology, the sounds, if they were able to be heard by humans on Earth, would be 100 decibels by the time they reached us, which is considered dangerous for human hearing.
means it comes so close to the sun, the chances of it breaking apart and evaporating away are high. the latest picture, i just saw one now from the soho spacecraft, and it s not looking good for the comet. they saw it coming in. it was strong, and then it just sort of faded dramatically in the last six hours or so. a lot of scientists are worried that the head of this comet has crumbled away and all we have left is the dust tail. uh-oh. chad myers, you have been listening to nasa, eavesdropping. can you corroborate? let s pretend the cup is the sun, and this is the back side. they saw the comet come in this side. waiting, waiting, waiting for it to come out here, and there wasn t much left when it came out the other side. you know, this thing had the title forces just being torn apart by the sun. sure, it s melting and it s subliming, as our guests talk about, going from a solid to a gas. so hot where it s but it s the
forces pulling the nucleus apart, and it doesn t loo good right now. how often does this thing happen where you have a comet like this passing by the sun? it doesn t seem close, but it is kind of close in scientific terms, right? well, brooke, yeah. sun-racer comets are fairly common. the spacecraft, the soho, sees one every few days or so. but comet ison is something special. it s the first time coming in from the vast cloud of comets outside the solar system. it s hot goinot going to be com back again, at least for millions and millionoffs years, or if it s dead, it will be gone forever. and also, they discovered it in september of last year, which gave nasa scientists sky watchers around the world 14 months of lead time to really get ready for this, to move spacecraft, to see it. they saw it from mars, the hubble space telescope saw it coming in.