Wow I'm amazed it made it soo close without vaporizing!

Stupid comet.

The Comet is okay right ? I mean it carried along happily after bumping Mr.Sun didnt it ?

Wow. Space is fucking cool. Thx NASA.

At about 2 seconds in, you can see the mass of the comet significantly decrease from the large glowing ball to a pinpoint before it hits. Given the size of the sun, that was a significantly huge chunk of high speed space ice (I'd say that is why some survived to impact the surface).

Plus 1 to "Space is fucking cool".

Most definitely, that's fucking amazing, that comet must have been McHugeLarge.

Roll for resistance to fire damage...roll check failed.

The Sun - our solar systems bugzapper

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Fucking comets. How do THEY work?

"SOHO watched as a fairly bright comet dove towards the Sun in a white streak and was not seen again after its close encounter (May 10-11, 2011). The comet, probably part of the Kreutz family of comets, was discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov. In this coronagraph the Sun (represented by a white circle) is blocked by the red occulting disk so that the faint structures in the Sun's corona can be discerned. Interestingly, a coronal mass ejection blasted out to the right just as the comet is approaching the Sun.

Scientists, however, have yet to find a convincing physical connection between sun-grazing comets and coronal mass ejections. In fact, analysis of this CME using images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows that the CME erupted before the comet came close enough to the solar surface to interact with strong magnetic fields."

^ I was thinking to myself that there was no way a comet, no matter how big, is going to cause anything but a miniscule disturbance to a nuclear furnace the size of the sun.

What if it depends what the comet is made of...?
>> ^Fantomas:

^ I was thinking to myself that there was no way a comet, no matter how big, is going to cause anything but a miniscule disturbance to a nuclear furnace the size of the sun.

>> ^ForgedReality:

What if it depends what the comet is made of...?
A comet, by definition, is not going to trouble the sun.

A rogue planet on the other hand...

Goodbye fellow comets. I'm going to the sun and I won't be coming back.

I'd hit it too..

The timing is so close it made me think the video was fake. Like something a TV writer would put in a script.