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.)