In October 2025, as comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) passed near the Sun, an eruption called a coronal mass ejection burst from our star.
Soon after, NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission watched as part of the comet’s tail wavered and ripped apart — not once but twice.
Imaging comet Lemmon every 4 to 8 minutes over three months, PUNCH created one of the longest and most detailed records yet of a comet interacting with the Sun.
Video Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
Music credit: \"Hyperconscious” by Timothy William Oliver [PRS] from Universal Production Music
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Colors of the aurora: Red, green, purple… black?
Mysterious “black auroras” are real, and they’re not like the northern and southern lights you’ve seen before. Inside these dark spots, strange physics is at work — and a NASA rocket just launched from Alaska to reveal it.
On Feb. 9, 2026, NASA launched the Black and Diffuse Auroral Science Surveyor sounding rocket mission from the Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks, Alaska. Flying their rocket through the black aurora, the team, led by principal investigator Marilia Samara of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, placed scientific instruments inside a black aurora to help reveal how and why they form.
Video Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
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