Active sun!

[Sallyvardon]

 
Just take a look at the sun on the soho website and click on the LASCO/C2 and LASCO/C3 animations to see just how violent the sun is.
Also see if you can spot the comet and tell me whether this one is heading straight into the sun!

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/gif/

[Sallyvardon]

Looks even more spectacular this morning.
Looks like the comet hit the sun sending a huge flare out.

[Mike]

Wow yeah - Look at that. A pretty big one too ending in a fiery death.

Do you notice that object that looks like a flying saucer or saturn that slowly moves to to the right slower than the stars move ?

[Rick]

For folks who have trouble with (or insufficient bandwidth for) the movies, look at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html instead.

Anyone know which comet it is?

[Mike]

Don't you mean which comet it WAS ?

[Rick]

Venus and Mars are in the same field at present too.