Comet A3 Photobombs Sun Observatory During Powerful X-Flare

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has come within the sights of the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The spacecraft captured a coronal mass ejection generated from a powerful X1.8-class solar flare.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured close-ups of the flare.

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