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April 2007 NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft watched a CME strike Comet Encke and rip its tail completely off (spaceweather.com)
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[–] davidalso@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's cool as hell. Also seems super lucky to have captured that.

[–] shectabeni@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I wonder how many times something like this has been captured in such great detail before.