Some Sungrazing Comets May Not Be Comets At All

Some comets like to play “chicken” with the sun We’ve been spoiled with comet science lately. The Rosetta spacecraft orbited Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for about 18 months and sent back daily updates on how the comet is behaving and changing. That mission is now over, but luckily there is a long-running mission that looks at sungrazers, or comets that pass really … Continue reading →