A relatively small comet appeared in the lower left area of the field of view (an oblong blob of light caught in a beam of sunlight) of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)'s coronagraph instrument streaking right towards the Sun, very possibly to be vaporized. Nearly all of the sungrazers observed by SOHO are members of the same group (the Kreutz group), the remains of a single, parent comet that broke up some centuries ago. (The Sun is represented by the white circle in the center of the
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