Comet Lovejoy Offers New Clues to Sun's Corona (3 of 5) (VIDEO)

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Author Cooper Downs explains observations that show comet Lovejoy passing into the sun. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the June 7, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Cooper Downs at Predictive Science Inc. in San Diego, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Probing the Solar Magnetic Field with a Sun-Grazing Comet."

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[Video courtesy of Cooper Downs]

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