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A paper was published in Science magazine today about watching the evaporation of C/2011 N3 (SOHO) seen by SDO/AIA to evaporate near the Sun in July (here is a time-lapse image of the comet moving across the disk of the Sun.) The article is at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6066/324. There is also a comment (called a perspective) written by another scientist that describes the research paper.
Here are some links to media accounts describing these comets:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/su...met-death.html
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/comet-death-may-hint-at-birth-of-earth/
http://www.space.com/14288-sungrazing-comet-death-dive-sun-observed.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...space-science/
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sci...ere-2012-01-19
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ving-comet-sdo
http://www.kxly.com/nationalnews/30252948/detail.html
https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...o.blogspot.com
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