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He kite C/2024 S1 recently discovered by some stargazers, it was expected to be captured the week of halloweenHowever, this could not be possible because the October 28 was ‘swallowed’ by the Sun.
According to a NASA video, the comet completely disintegrated days before the celebration. Halloween.
Moment when the sun “swallowed” a comet
The NASA confirmed on Tuesday that its spacecraft observational del Sol captured the moment comet Atlas broke into pieces this week while passing close to the Sun.
Astronomers have been tracking the so-called halloween kitealso known as C/2024 S1, since it was discovered in September by a telescope in Hawaii.
As he raced toward the sun, a space observatory operated by the NASA and the European Space Agency spied on his disappearance
Data about comet C/2024
According to National Geographic, “sand believes that The comet is part of a family of comets that pass incredibly close to the Sun”.
“Like a “sungrazer” or “solar grazer”, Comet C/2024 S1 belonged to a category of comets that approach less than 1.4 million kilometers from the Sun. These daring visits to the solar atmosphere are usually fatal, since the high temperatures lead these interstellar travelers to fade into clouds of particles,” he added. National Geographic.
What are comments
According to the National Autonomous University from Mexico (UNAM), “these are solid bodies, formed by a core of rock and ice. They come mainly from two regions of the Solar System: the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud.”
“The first is beyond the orbit of Neptune, among the bodies that inhabit that area are Pluto and Halley’s Comet. The second region surrounds our Solar System like a shell. Comets revolve around the Sun in an elliptical orbit. As they approach our star, the temperature increases and the ice turns into gas and forms a layer that surrounds the nucleus, this is known as a coma. added the UNAM.
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