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Daisy Dobrijevic

UNBELIEVABLE: Watch devil comet approach the sun during explosive coronal mass ejection video - The Untold Story

Gif animation showing comet 12P/Pons-Brooks shining brightly near Jupiter in the video when a large cme eruption is released from the sun.

NASA's space-based solar observatory STEREO-A is keeping a close eye on 'Devil Comet' 12P/Pons-Brooks as it prepares to make its closest approach to the sun — known as perihelion — on April 21.

In this footage, the comet is passing by Jupiter from the observatory's perspective, just as a coronal mass ejection (CME), a large expulsion of plasma and magnetic field from the sun, launches into space. 

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