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Picture of the Day
A temporary disconnect
Gerald Rhemann, Michael Jäger, and Lukas Demetz, taken from Farm Hakos, Namibia
The pronounced kink in the blue tail of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in this May 4 image is the mark of a disconnection event — when a passing solar storm of plasma rips the ion tail away from a comet’s nucleus.
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