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A space telescope has held a hulk comet"s unusual last hours as it done a dive of genocide in to the sun.

The immeasurable missile, with a head the distance of the Isle of Wight and a tail most millions of miles long, appeared in cinema being taken by a NASA heavenly body on Friday (12th).

The orbiting SoHo observatory, that ceaselessly monitors the sun, available the singular and formerly unspotted shining comet swooping in from the reduce left of the pictures.

It grew ever brighter as it directed without delay at the home star, shown as a white ring in the images. It was rught away vaporised by the sun"s absolute chief furnace.

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Experts hold the outrageous comet was only a bit of a immeasurable supercomet that pennyless up at slightest 2,000 years ago. The ensuing debris, right away orbiting in the solar complement as not as big comets, is called the Kreutz family after a 19th century German astronomer who complicated them.

Astronomers contend that most most not as big Kreutz fragments, as well small to be seen, feed on grass past the object each day and disintegrate.

This week NASA suggested that their new Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope - WISE - could acknowledge a low brownish-red dwarf messenger star to the object that might be promulgation comets towards us from a immeasurable fountainhead of the icy objects called the Oort Cloud at the corner of the solar system.

Robin Scagell, vice-president of the Society for Popular Astronomy, pronounced today: "A comet identical to this will be identical to no some-more than an irritating fleabite for the sun. But if it something of a identical distance strike the Earth it could explosion a void the distance of a city and means country-wide devastation. So it is rather shocking that they only arrive out of nowhere and are so unpredictable!"

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