實拍彗星撞太陽 猶如焰火般燦爛
It's not Fireworks Night yet - but a spectacular explosion HAS lit up the night sky after a giant comet smashed into the Sun.
這不是夜晚絢爛的煙花，其實是一個肉眼可以看到的巨大的彗星撞向太陽的瞬間，光亮點燃了整個夜晚。
Our star was hit by an unusually large sungrazer caught on camera careering towards it seven hours before impact.
我們的恆星被一個超乎尋常大的掠日彗星撞擊了，相機在有影響的7個小時前拍下了這一切。
Then, when the comet hit on Sunday, the Sun was seen letting out an X-class flare that ripped out through space around it.
當週日這顆彗星撞上太陽的時候，太陽被觀測到放出了耀眼的X型光。
A clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms burst out through the corona into space lighting it up like a Catherine Wheel.
大量的電子，離子和原子在電暈的過程中被釋放出來，像旋轉式的五彩煙火一樣將天空點燃。
Scientists expect the cloud - which could disrupt long-range radio communications - to arrive at Earth in the next few days.
科學家們預測，這次在幾天後將會影響地球的撞擊，有可能會對遠距離的廣播信號產生影響。
The video was released only briefly by Soho, the European Space Agency's orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
視頻是由歐洲太空總署的太陽能子午觀測站發佈的。
Solar physicists videoed the event and posted it on the internet for all the world to see - then whipped it off minutes later.
太陽能方面的物理學家錄下了這段視頻，並將它放到了網上讓全世界的人觀看，幾分鐘之後就將其刪除了。
But, not before it found its way onto YouTube and a series of specialist astronomy websites.
但是，不久之後在廣泛流傳的視頻網站上和一系列專業的航天網站上又出現了它的蹤影。
The footage has now been posted on the U.S. military's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division.
最近，它又被放到了美國海軍實驗研究所的太空科技板塊上。
According to the website : "[The comet] was discovered by amateur astronomers on Friday, September 30, disintegrated in spectacular fashion the very next day when it plunged into the sun.
根據一個名爲spaceweather的網站說，這顆彗星是在9月30號的那個週五被天體愛好者發現的，但是第二天接近太陽時就以極快的速度瓦解了。
'The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the comet's last hours. The end was punctuated by an unexpected explosion.'
太陽能子午觀測站記錄下來這顆彗星的最後幾個小時，它的結尾是由一個意想不到的爆炸完成的。
