Space!

[Dust]

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!)

[Tiel]

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!

[Dust]

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.

[Stormwern]

We're in space!