NASA captures comet's crash into Sun
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For the first time, technology has allowed NASA to observe a comet being vaporized as it approached the sun, the space agency reported.
In an article published in this month's Science, the agency said its Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded Comet C/2011 N3 nearing the sun and burning to nothing over a 20-minute span in July.