File:Lovejoy C-2011 W3 imaged by STEREO-A EUVI.gif

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Description	English: Comet Lovejoy in STEREO/SECCHI's EUVI-A imager's 171-Angstrom wavelength. Clearly we see the tail wiggling again but this time it looks like the entire comet is dancing about in and out of the corona! Of course it's not – that's an optical illusion facilitated by the way the tail is moving around. If you were to plot the comet head positions you would see they follow a perfect smooth curve. That tail does not though! What seems to be happening – and this is my very preliminary reaction that could be as accurate as my Lovejoy-will-never-survive prediction – is that the charge-free dust in the comet tail is being rapidly charged as it leave the comet and is basically "clinging" to, or certainly interacting with, magnetic field lines in the corona… somehow. Throw in some Fairy-dust and there's your explanation!
Date	19 December 2011
Source	http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=news/birthday_comet (direct link)
Author	STEREO/SECCHI image courtesy NASA/NRL

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