NASA Chandra: Star Consumed by Medium-Sized Black Hole | Video

Just a few hundred thousand times our Sun's mass, the hungry singularity in dwarf galaxy 47 Abell 1795 munched on a nearby star for at least 6 years, while the Chandra X-ray Observatory watched. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart

NASA SOHO: Video of Comet Consumed by Sun

Two days ago, NASA’s Solar and Helioscopic Observatory (SOHO) captured a comet doing its best Icarus imitation. You can see the comet’s misstep at the end of the clip above.