He was participating in the NASA-funded Sangrazar project – a civic science project inviting anyone to discover a new comet in images by the joint European Space Agency and NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or SOHO.
The comet, known as C / 2020 X3 (SOHO), is known as the Kreutz astronaut, NASA said. This family of comets evolved from a large parent comet that split into smaller pieces a thousand years ago. Sangrazars still orbit the sun today.
Bunplod knew the eclipse was coming, and was eager to see if his new comet discovery could appear in the Sun’s outer atmosphere.
The red-colored, satellite image of the sun shows a bright view of the light moving around the sun. At the time the eclipse was photographed, the comet was traveling at a speed of about 2.7 million miles per hour from the surface of the sun, NASA said.
The comet was about 50 feet (15 meters) in diameter – about the length of a centimeter, NASA said. It then disintegrated into dust particles due to intense sun radiation, just hours before reaching the nearest point to the sun.
Kreutzsung Negrezer comets are commonly found in Soho images. The Space Observatory’s camera works by mimicking a total solar eclipse: a solid disk blocks the light from the sun’s darkness, showing comet characteristics and other celestial objects such as a comet in its outer atmosphere.
To date, 4,108 comets have been found in Soho’s images, including the 3,524th Kreutz Sunggrazer, NASA said.
As far as is known, no comets have actually been seen hitting the solar surface or the photosphere, the European Space Agency said.
Kreutzsunggrazers go within about 31,000 miles (50,000 km) surface, passing only through the lower regions of the solar system (corona). Evaporation occurs mostly in hot solar atmospheres.
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