Scientists to capture the comet to the sun "suicide" scene

SOHO probe witnessed the long tail of a comet toward the sun in the scene. After never see it out.

This image shows the comet into the sun, the moment before, with the surface of a large-scale solar coronal mass ejections.

BAGHDAD, NASA scientists said the phenomenon last week when the outbreak occurred just sun, a comet headed out into the sun.

NASA-owned Sun and Heliospheric (SOHO) on May 10 and 11 to capture this "suicide" scene comet to the sun, but never saw it out. Coincidentally, on the surface of a large-scale outbreak occurred, called "coronal mass ejections" also happens to appear almost at the same time. CME is at the surface of a large number of high-speed plasma stream issued, it will a large number of solar energetic particles into space.

The sun is in its 11-year activity cycle of the active phase, currently belongs to the 24th solar cycle. SOHO is a project between NASA and the European Space Agency in cooperation projects large-scale solar observation, in December 2, 1995 launch from Cape Canaveral for launch.