Lovejoy Lives!

NASA SDO: "Breaking News! Lovejoy lives! The comet Lovejoy has survived it's journey around the sun to reemerge on the other side." Lots more movies of the comet that brushed the Sun and survived at the NASA SDO YouTube page.

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For some reason this makes me inordinatly and implausably happy. Thanks for Sharing Xeni.
- http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
  
  Next thing you know, SOPA won’t pass!
http://illustratorhints.com/ Jesseham

Well you know it’s coming for us next…
- catcrobatics
  
  not necessarily. there are stronger gravitational pulls it would target first.
  - http://illustratorhints.com/ Jesseham
    
    I was thinking more along the lines of “schadenfreude this, earthlings!”
pthree

Damn, I thought this article was going to be about Ian McShane. Oh well, comets are pretty cool too, I guess.
http://redesigned.com redesigned

…and here i thought it would go back in time and save some whales and give us the formula for clear aluminum. *sighs* :-)
http://twitter.com/bazimmerman Brad Zimmerman

“It’s all over people, we don’t have a prayer!” -Rev. Lovejoy, on the approaching comet.
miasm

phew, just a little sunlight-bleaching.
Daemonworks

Did it find some drastically underpriced antiques that it could pick up for a song while it was there?
catcrobatics

why such a long video?
http://twitter.com/VagabondAstro Robert Little

I love this line from the Sungrazing Comet page…
“I don’t know where to begin. I simply don’t know. What an extraordinary 24hrs! I suppose the first thing to say is this: I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. And I have never been so happy to be wrong! For the past two weeks I have been saying that Comet Lovejoy would not survive perihelion in “any appreciable form”. When I said this, I envisioned that we would see some very diffuse component maybe last a few hours after perhelion, but not much else. And I was spectacularly incorrect!”
Yeah, astronomers get giddy.
bingobangoboy

The sun?

(edit: darn you, boing boing login thingy. This was supposed to be a reply.)
Stanley Potemkin

They can film a comet sailing through the sun’s corona but can’t figure out how to use an apostrophe. *sigh*
scifijazznik

Someone with skillz needs to enslowen and GIF-ify that video. I sounded like all the lovers I’ve ever had when I watched that– “Three seconds?!!?”
shamocracy79

No one remember being taught in school that comets are made of mostly ice? I’m guessing scientists are now clarifying that theory to include the qualifer, “unmeltable”?
Editz

It should sound something like this:

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/Yosemite_Sam/ltys_046.mp3
obeyken

It’s kind of like “Melancholia” but with a happy ending!
- ryuchi
  
  i was to type to you “do you mean Tarkovsky’s ‘Melancholia’…?” and went to youtube to give you a link to a snipplet of the film, but discovered his film was rather called ‘Nostalghia’, and: WHOOAA! someone put the complete film on youtube!!! Check it friend, if you feel like it! here:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgbU2GDhSIo
ryuchi

Yuppiii Lovejoy lives :D! in any case warrior takes any story and shapes their awareness so that the story affects them in a enhancing way–in this case–Lovejoy continues its journey into the unknow, yuppiiii :P
http://twitter.com/p_twiddy p_twiddy

YIPPEE-KI-YAY MUTHUFUKAZZZZ!!

http://5secondfilms.com/watch/shooting_star

A-hem. Please excuse me.
DouglasLucchetti

It must be that the comet’s approach was at night.