April 2007 NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft watched a CME strike Comet Encke and rip its tail completely off
April 2007 NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft watched a CME strike Comet Encke and rip its tail completely off
That's cool as hell. Also seems super lucky to have captured that.
Agreed, I wonder how many times something like this has been captured in such great detail before.
Damn, nature/space/universe. You scary!
Nishimura out there shredding in the solar surf
I didn't even think this was a thing. Neat post.
Same reaction man.
That is flipping amazing
Fake! I can see the wires!
/s
So this seemed so very cool that I wanted to learn more. There were a few problems, however. The direction of Nishimura is traveling opposite to what this video shows. I eventually found this video is from Comet Encke back in 2007 as observed by STEREO-A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Encke\_tail\_rip\_off.ogv
Well I can't be that mad even though I was tricked because this is a really cool video and I learned some new things. Nishimura did go through a tail disconnection event. But buyer beware, eh?
Thank you for the correction. The article I sourced this from was misleading. I've edited the title.
so rude!
Me after watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQpOT2CclF8#t=45s
I'm sorry but every video I see of him I end up having to rewatch the parody video:
So where's all that water gonna end up? Also does losing what appears to be a not inconsiderable amount of it's mass, has the orbit changed?