Mind-blowing images of brilliant comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas colliding with huge ejection of masses from the Sun

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, codenamed C/2023 A3, has already offered us splendid images.

But those sent back in recent hours by the mission Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SohoSoho, NasaNasa) are simply spectacular. Note that we also observe in these images, on the other side of the SoleilSoleil hidden, the planet Mercury.

The tail of the comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas torn?

And the astronomersastronomers we also learn that the Sun has just ejected from the massemasse coronal.

Two coronal mass ejections (CMECME) – one from a class X2 solar flare and the other, from an erupting magnetic filament – emitted this Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 October 2024. Both in the direction of Earth. But even more directly, from that of the cometcomet Tsuchinshan-Atlas.

The impact could tear the comet’s tail. This had already happened for comet Enke in 2007. We can’t wait for the reappearance of comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas in our sky – in principle from this Friday evening, October 11 – to enjoy the spectacle…