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[ad_1] NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is a mesmerizing picture of a star-forming region which resembles comets, known as Cometary Globules. Cometary Globules are small clouds of gas and dust in the Milky Way Galaxy. What's striking is that these globules have morphology just like comets. They have compact and opaque heads with long and luminous tails. According to NASA, the globules are most likely dense clumps of gas and dust that existed before the hot, massive stars were born. But once the stars began to irradiate and destroy their surroundings, the clumps became visible when their less dense surroundings were eroded away. They are hydrogen-rich and consist of carbon oxides and helium.Like Nebulae, globules are also the birthplace of stars. They are known to be one of the cold...

[ad_1] NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft has captured two "sungrazer" comets getting swallowed by the sun. Over 4000 Kreutz fragments fell into the Sun. NASA has recently shared footage of two comets falling steeply into the Sun on Saturday. The coronagraph has been captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which was launched by NASA and the European Space Agency in 1995. The footage shows the two "Kreutz sungrazer" comets heading towards the sun after which they were gobbled up by the giant star. However, a closer look at the coronagraph revealed that the comet was followed by a smaller companion. Karl Battams of the US Naval Research Lab shared the same via a tweet. He wrote, “Yesterday's bright comet turned out to have a smaller...

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 4 January 2023: Cometary Globule seen near a galaxy

Two comets sensationally swallowed by Sun captured LIVE by NASA SOHO spacecraft