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[–] davidalso 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's cool as hell. Also seems super lucky to have captured that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I wonder how many times something like this has been captured in such great detail before.

[–] clearedtoland 15 points 1 year ago

Damn, nature/space/universe. You scary!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nishimura out there shredding in the solar surf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't even think this was a thing. Neat post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same reaction man.

[–] PlantDadManGuy 4 points 1 year ago

That is flipping amazing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fake! I can see the wires!

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So this seemed so very cool that I wanted to learn more. There were a few problems, however. The direction of Nishimura is traveling opposite to what this video shows. I eventually found this video is from Comet Encke back in 2007 as observed by STEREO-A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Encke_tail_rip_off.ogv

Well I can't be that mad even though I was tricked because this is a really cool video and I learned some new things. Nishimura did go through a tail disconnection event. But buyer beware, eh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the correction. The article I sourced this from was misleading. I've edited the title.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sorry but every video I see of him I end up having to rewatch the parody video:

https://youtu.be/AYxu_MQSTTY?si=AAKIW8vlbcCLIdKj

[–] AngryCommieKender 1 points 1 year ago

So where's all that water gonna end up? Also does losing what appears to be a not inconsiderable amount of it's mass, has the orbit changed?