During the solar eclipses in Chile and Argentina, a newly discovered comet was photographed as it flew past the sun.
The comet named C / 2020 X3 was first spotted in satellite information by the Thai space newcomer Worachate Boonplod on December 13, one day before the overshoot, NASA announced on Saturday.
He participated in the NASA-sponsored Sungrazer Project – a resident science company that welcomes everyone to search for new comets in images from the joint European Space Agency and NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
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The comet, named C / 2020 X3 (SOHO), is known as the Kreutz Sunray, according to NASA. This group of comets grew out of a giant parent comet that split up into more modest parts well over 1,000 years ago. The Sungrazers continue to circle the sun today.
Boonplod realized the overshadowing was coming and was curious to see if his new cometary revelation could appear in the outer environment of the sun.
A red shaded satellite image of the sun shows a glorious piece of light orbiting the sun. Around the time the shadowing image was captured, the comet was moving about 450,000 miles per hour, about 2.7 million miles from the sun’s surface, NASA said.
The comet was about 15 meters wide – about the length of a semi-trailer truck, NASA said. At that point, it was breaking up into neat particles a few hours before the sun’s next peak due to strong sunlight.
Individuals in Chile and Argentina were blessed to receive the last sunlight-based shroud of 2020 last Monday. During an absolutely sun-driven shroud, the moon completely obstructs the sun, apart from the sun’s external climate, the crown to form a beautiful ring of light.
Kreutz-Sungrazer comets are usually found in SOHO images. The camera of the space observatory copies complete sun protection covers: a strong circle excludes the generally dazzling light of the sun and reveals weaker highlights in its outer environment and other divine objects such as comets.
So far, 4,108 comets have been found in SOHO images, this comet being 3,524. discovered Kreutz-Sunburner, NASA said.
As far as is known, comets were never thought to ever actually hit the sun-based surface or the photosphere, the European Space Agency said.
The Kreutz-Suningers reach about 50,000 kilometers of the surface and simply go through the lower areas of the sun-oriented air (the crown). Mostly they disappear into the hot, sun-based environment.