A newly-discovered comet that plunged through the sun’s atmosphere last week (and somehow survived) was clearly left wounded by the encounter. According to Karl Battams, a solar researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Center in Washington, Comet Lovejoy passed through the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, featuring a long, bright tail, only to have that [...]

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It would seem that rumors of Comet Lovejoy‘s death have been greatly exaggerated. The newly discovered comet surprised many yesterday by surviving a suicide dive through the sun’s hot atmosphere, according to NASA. Comet Lovejoy passed through the sun’s corona at around 7 p.m. EST, coming within roughly 87,000 miles of its surface. Temperatures in [...]

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Here’s something you certainly don’t see every day. A giant, planet-sized comet discovered by amateur astronomers on Friday smashed into the sun on Saturday with unexpected consequences. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the comet’s impact with the sun. Right after the comet hit, a massive CME (solar flare) exploded out of the other side [...]

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If you’ve been following the preachings of Family Radio founder Harold Camping, you know that he claims that this Saturday, May 21, 2011 will be Judgment Day, the day God’s chosen people will be snatched up to heaven in “The Rapture”. Some have mistakenly taken this to mean that Camping thinks the world will end [...]

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Let’s assume for a moment that the world will not end on May 21, 2011, as a certain Family Radio founder is predicting.  Could something more ominous be waiting in the wings? I’m not one to go running to the army surplus store every time I hear a doomsday prediction, but this is interesting…and I [...]

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We already knew that the planet Jupiter was hit by a comet the other day.  What we did NOT know, however, was that this comet smashed a hole in Jupiter…and that hole is about the size of the planet Earth! What’s even more impressive is that this hole was discovered by an amateur astronomer. Australian [...]

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