Eclipse season for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has begun. Every day for the next three weeks, around 07:30 UT, Earth will pass between SDO and the sun, producing a total solar eclipse. This is a twice-a-year event for SDO caused by the alignment of the sun and Earth as seen from the spacecraft’s geosynchronous orbit. SOHO spacecraft captured a Kreutz sungrazer comet plunging toward the sun on July 26-27. Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a single giant comet …Source
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