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30 January 2012
The Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA instrument captured the first ever image of a comet passing directly in front of the Sun in the early morning of 6 July 2011 in 171 angstrom. The comet comes in from the right and is very faint (recommend viewing full screen)...
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