An incredible video shot from a space craft appears to show the moment that a massive ejection of particles from the sun flew directly into the path of a comet - and the Earth.
The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory shot the clip of super-hot material being blown from the Sun in a coronal mass ejection - a CME.
In the clip, the CME appears to fly into the path of the Comet PanStarrs, which dazzled viewers on the Earth earlier this month.
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But in fact the video isn't all that it seems. The comet and the CME did not cross paths, and the effect is just a trick created by the craft's position relative to Earth, the comet and the Sun.
The timelapse was made from 10 - 15 March.