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Old 03-01-2015, 01:28 PM
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Video of ion tail structure sweeping away in the solar wind

Here is a new 19-second YouTube video of Comet Lovejoy built from 191 luminance exposures of 60 seconds each recorded during 22:06 EST, 29th December to 01:54 EST, 30th December 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ360iM1Ws

The video reveals a wealth of ion tail structure sweept away from the nucleus by the solar wind. Note the passage of the ion tail across the faint edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 1886.
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