... Credit: LASCO , SOHO Consortium , NRL , ESA , NASA Explanation: The Sun destroyed this comet. Arcing toward a fiery fate, this Sungrazer comet was recorded by the SOHO spacecraft's Large Angle Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO) on 1996 Dec. ... LASCO uses an occulting disk, partially visible at the lower right, to block out the otherwise overwhelming solar disk allowing it to image the inner 5 million miles of the relatively faint corona . ... 1995 1996 . ... Publications with keywords: comet . ...