Comet Loses Tail

I love anything connected to science. This short gif comes from a story reported earlier this month about a Solar storm that ripped the tail off Comet Encke.







From the article:

Comets are known as dirty snowballs. As they approach the Sun, the constant solar wind picks away at their snowy exterior, creating the beautiful tail we see trailing behind. But sometimes the solar wind is replaced with a solar hurricane, and in the case of Comet Encke, its graceful tail was completely torn off.