We Are In Line For The Treat Of A Lifetime With Sun Diving Comet C/2026 A1!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Ladies and gentlemen, Earth is in line for the treat of a lifetime with sun-diving comet C/2026 A1. Yes, a sun-grazing comet. Sun-grazing comet C2026A1 is getting very close to the sun. On April 4th, it will skim just 160,000 kilometers or 0.23 solar radius above the sun's surface. A true death dive. The event will be invisible from Earth, but space-based coronagraphs will be able to see what's going on. Astronomer Quching Zeng of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, created this diagram. This shows the trajectory of the comet and maps the comet to the SOHO and LASCO and GOES-19 and COR1 fields of view. Says Zhang, the comet approaches the Sun from the lower left and will also depart to the lower left if it survives perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. Quote, even if the comet's nucleus fully disintegrates right now, the remnant will still rapidly brighten in the final hours as intense solar heating turns the dust into a trail of glowing gas. In that case, a peak brightness of around negative 2 would occur about 10 hours before perihelion on April 4th, about 4 UTC time. Now, if this does not disintegrate, it could be much brighter. The more negative the number, the easier it is to be seen with the human eye or especially to be seen with all this space-based equipment. we're going to be looking at C/2026 A1 maps that's its full name you might recall in 2011 comet Lovejoy C/2011 W3 skimmed the sun at about the same distance and survived became a spectacular sight for weeks the same thing happened to comet maps I am pessimistic says Zhang images from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that the nucleus of comet maps is only about 0.4 kilometers in diameter, which is on the low side of estimates for comet Lovejoy. Whether any of the comets still exist after April 4th remains to be seen. Either way, this is going to be a spectacular sight. And if it does stay together, it could get much, much brighter than negative 2. they were talking about perhaps a hundred times brighter keep that in mind wouldn't that be something all right folks please remember and keep keep your praise but that's going to happen on april 4th and we'll kind of watch it through starting on the second but it should be epic again we get to watch it on LASCO C3 C2 Corone and while others please make sure to make it back And I'll show you some live footage on the different space instruments as the comet rips in and dives around the sun. It's going to be a really close call. Please share, subscribe, and always remember that anything's possible in Bizarro World.