Cool Video of Comet smashing into the Sun

This video shows a Comet crashing into the sun and an explosion out the other side. No. they are not related, but the video is cool.

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A comet discovered on Friday September 30, 2011 by an amateur astronomer disintegrated on Saturday October 1, 2011 when it plunged into the Sun.

The Corongraph of NASA/ESA's SOHO captured the last few hours of the comet.

Very shortly after the comet dove into the Sun a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) exploded. As of current solar scientists do not believe that a comet can trigger a Coronal Mass Ejection - however, the question of if a comet could cause a magnetic instability on the Sun remains and is being studied.