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Loading contentA family of sungrazing comets on very similar orbits, thought to be the fragments of a single giant comet that broke apart many centuries ago. They include some of the brightest comets in history and are discovered in large numbers by solar spacecraft.
A family of sungrazing comets on very similar orbits, thought to be the fragments of a single giant comet that broke apart many centuries ago. They include some of the brightest comets in history and are discovered in large numbers by solar spacecraft.
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One of the brightest comets of the past thousand years — a Kreutz sungrazer that became visible in daylight near the Sun in October 1965.
A Kreutz sungrazing comet that unexpectedly survived a passage through the Sun's corona in December 2011, emerging to display a bright tail.
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