The bright comet of 1965, Ikeya-Seki, was also a member of the Sungrazer family , coming within about 400,000 miles of the Sun's surface. Passing so close to the Sun , Sungrazers are subjected to destructive tidal forces along with intense solar heat. This comet, known as SOHO 6, did not survive. In the above picture, magnetic fields buckle releasing previously constrained hot material from the upper atmosphere of the Sun . As a result, hot gas streams out into the Solar System , impacting planets , moons, spacecraft, and making space a dangerous place for astronauts .
CMEs are more common but less intense than solar flares .
Click on thumbnail to see full picture then use your browser's back button to return to this pace. The wavelength of radiation produced by an object is usually related to its temperature. Harvard's Field Guide to X-ray Astronomy . Probing deep within a neighborhood stellar nursery, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered a swarm of newborn brown dwarfs. About 50 of these objects appeared throughout the Orion Nebula's Trapezium cluster.