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20th January 2012, 16:00
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-13k2qyo_mdM/TxmGdrX3g4I/AAAAAAAAALA/owTDQoKfNuo/s200/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-11-29%2Bat%2B10.15.49%2BAM.png
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-13k2qyo_mdM/TxmGdrX3g4I/AAAAAAAAALA/owTDQoKfNuo/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-11-29%2Bat%2B10.15.49%2BAM.png)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 (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6066/296.citation) (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/sunearth/news/comet-death.html

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/comet-death-may-hint-at-birth-of-earth/ (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/comet-death.html)

http://www.space.com/14288-sungrazing-comet-death-dive-sun-observed.html (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/comet-death.html)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120119-comet-sun-corona-breakup-nasa-solar-space-science/

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scientists-make-first-ever-observations-of-comets-demise-deep-inside-solar-atmosphere-2012-01-19

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sun-diving-comet-sdo

http://www.kxly.com/nationalnews/30252948/detail.html

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