TheCoreWithin

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12 ... d-survives

Some nice movies
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibr ... whoosh.m4v
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibr ... merges.m4v

(Well... not as impressive as it reads, but still, so hot!)

Wasn't that like 100k kilometers away from the sun or so? That's frickin close! Closer than the moon is from here. And I have no idea why it didn't evaporate. Strong comet!

btw, today André Kuipers launched into space towards the ISS, our only and awesome Dutch astronaut I'm not a patriot, but I'm proud of this guy!

The sun atmosphere is not very dense, even though it's high temperature.

A comparison I've read:
Compare a 300 Degree Celsius Oven atmosphere with a much less hot 180 Degree Celsius pot of frying oil. If you can easily hold your hand into the oven to get out a cake, but even touching the oil will burn you.

We're in space!