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April 2007 NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft watched a CME strike Comet Encke and rip its tail completely off (spaceweather.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So this seemed so very cool that I wanted to learn more. There were a few problems, however. The direction of Nishimura is traveling opposite to what this video shows. I eventually found this video is from Comet Encke back in 2007 as observed by STEREO-A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Encke_tail_rip_off.ogv

Well I can't be that mad even though I was tricked because this is a really cool video and I learned some new things. Nishimura did go through a tail disconnection event. But buyer beware, eh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the correction. The article I sourced this from was misleading. I've edited the title.