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    NASA Heliophysics Spacecraft Witness Comet’s Demise

    A black-and-white image shows a comet with a bright white coma (head) and a faint white tail stretching toward the lower left.

    On April 4, comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) plunged toward the Sun — flying about twice as far from our star as the Moon is from Earth. Comet watchers held their collective breath, waiting to see whether comet MAPS would survive its sweltering passage by the Sun. The SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft — a joint NASA and ESA […]

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