Astronomy: December 2011 Archives

After grazing the Sun's corona at a distance of 120,000 km from the Sun's surface Comet Lovejoy emerged on the other side of the Sun still intact. Images supplied by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Just after 6:00 pm last Monday, a bright fireball shot across the sky, visible from Hamilton to Peterborough. A system of video cameras set up by astronomers captured video of the event which may make it possible to recover meteorite fragments.