April 2007 NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft watched a CME strike Comet Encke and rip its tail completely off

https://spaceweather.com/

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davidalso@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

shectabeni@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

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

clearedtoland@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y

Damn, nature/space/universe. You scary!

theodewere@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y

Nishimura out there shredding in the solar surf

TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I didn't even think this was a thing. Neat post.

kratoz29@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

Same reaction man.

PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

That is flipping amazing

thefartographer@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

Fake! I can see the wires!

/s

downpunxx@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

so rude!

lgstarn@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

So this seemed so very cool that I wanted to learn more. There were a few problems, however. The direction of Nishimura is traveling opposite to what this video shows. I eventually found this video is from Comet Encke back in 2007 as observed by STEREO-A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Encke_tail_rip_off.ogv

Well I can't be that mad even though I was tricked because this is a really cool video and I learned some new things. Nishimura did go through a tail disconnection event. But buyer beware, eh?

Wilshire@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

Thank you for the correction. The article I sourced this from was misleading. I've edited the title.

blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)
XTornado@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

I'm sorry but every video I see of him I end up having to rewatch the parody video:

https://youtu.be/AYxu_MQSTTY?si=AAKIW8vlbcCLIdKj

Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

So where's all that water gonna end up? Also does losing what appears to be a not inconsiderable amount of it's mass, has the orbit changed?