Comet Loses Its Tail In Stereo Satellite Images
Credit: NASA/GSFC
NASA’s Stereo-A, one of the two Stereo spacecraft launched into heliocentric orbits to produce 3D images of solar eruptions, has caught the Sun ripping the tail off a passing comet. In this series of four images collected by scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory with the spacecraft’s...
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