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Cool video: Jupiter, its moons, a comet, and...the Sun?

Posted By Emily Lakdawalla

2012/05/16 11:45 CDT

Topics: pretty pictures, podcasts and videos, the Sun, solar observing spacecraft

Here's a neat video posted by SungrazerComets (the Twitter identity of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Sungrazing Comets website) this morning. It's an animation of images taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on May 13 and 14, when Jupiter was passing through solar conjunction. It's pretty spiffy that SOHO can spot two of Jupiter's moons. As icing on the cake, the video also captures a sungrazing comet and a coronal mass ejection.