Approaching the sun porch, he looked at me looking at the view.
Her program describes dancers "progressing in euphoria and exhaustion as if approaching the sun, melting until their souls escape their ephemeral bodies and disintegrate into light".
Some of the images contained the equivalent of overexposure or graininess, which astronomers traced to the existence of comets approaching the sun.
It turns out that the solar wind generates low-energy x-rays when its charged particles hit neutral atoms in the tails of comets approaching the sun, which muddles images if x-ray telescopes happen to be pointed in the direction of the tails.
Beauty, for starters — the fast-approaching Sun looks like a hot, burbling and bloody stew — and death, of course.
As comets approach the sun, solar wind and the sun's magnetic field sweep particles from the coma into tails that stretch behind the comet's head.
Grady said Philae's imperfect landing was ironic, as in the shade it managed to last longer than it would have had it landed properly and exposed to the sun; its electronics would have "frazzled" relatively quickly as the comet approached the sun.
Every 33 years, however, the comet approaches the sun, so there is a lot more dust about.
It was extraordinarily bright at the time, considering its great distance beyond Jupiter's orbit, raising the prospect of a truly cosmic spectacle as it approached the sun.
As comets approach the sun, the rising temperature begins to boil them away, producing the spectacular dusty tails for which they are best known.
