Spacecraft catches view of comet being vaporized by the sun

A comet, thought to be part of the Kreutz family of comets, hurtles toward the sun at about 1.3 million miles per hour before being vaporized in the star's atmosphere.

On Earth, the sun is a crucial piece of maintaining life, however to anything that gets excessively near it? Not really.

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a satellite used to concentrate on the sun for over 20 years, caught pictures of a comet getting excessively near the star and being "torn separated and vaporized" as it passed recently, as indicated by an official statement.

The comet, part of the Kreutz group of comets, was spotted by SOHO on August 1 as it rushed toward the sun, drawing nearer on August 3 at a pace of around 1.3 million miles for each hour. In the short, enlivened picture, the comet can be seen flying from the right side toward the sun, at the focal point of the photo.

The Kreutz gathering of comets are accepted to have severed a much bigger comet hundreds of years back and now keep up exceedingly circular circles that convey them past Pluto's circle on their way through the close planetary system.

SOHO was propelled by NASA and the European Space Agency in 1995 as a two-year mission to think about the interior structure of the sun, its external climate and the inceptions of sun oriented wind. Albeit anticipated that would be utilized for a long time, the satellite has kept on helping researchers assemble pictures and information about the sun for over 20 years.