So Long, SWAN…
Remember that newly-discovered comet we mentioned a couple of days ago? Well, it’s gone. Poof. Into the Sun and never to return, it was a sungrazer’s final voyage.
The video above features images from the SOHO spacecraft and description from Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, with music by Kevin MacLeod.
Alas, poor SWAN… at least we knew him.
Read more about the history of Comet SWAN on the Sungrazing Comets site. Video credit: NASA/SOHO (and thanks to Phil Plait for the assembly.)
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