实拍彗星撞太阳 犹如焰火般灿烂

It's not Fireworks Night yet - but a spectacular explosion HAS lit up the night sky after a giant comet smashed into the Sun.

这不是夜晚绚烂的烟花，其实是一个肉眼可以看到的巨大的彗星撞向太阳的瞬间，光亮点燃了整个夜晚。

Our star was hit by an unusually large sungrazer caught on camera careering towards it seven hours before impact.

我们的恒星被一个超乎寻常大的掠日彗星撞击了，相机在有影响的7个小时前拍下了这一切。

Then, when the comet hit on Sunday, the Sun was seen letting out an X-class flare that ripped out through space around it.

当周日这颗彗星撞上太阳的时候，太阳被观测到放出了耀眼的X型光。

A clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms burst out through the corona into space lighting it up like a Catherine Wheel.

大量的电子，离子和原子在电晕的过程中被释放出来，像旋转式的五彩烟火一样将天空点燃。

Scientists expect the cloud - which could disrupt long-range radio communications - to arrive at Earth in the next few days.

科学家们预测，这次在几天后将会影响地球的撞击，有可能会对远距离的广播信号产生影响。

The video was released only briefly by Soho, the European Space Agency's orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.

视频是由欧洲太空总署的太阳能子午观测站发布的。

Solar physicists videoed the event and posted it on the internet for all the world to see - then whipped it off minutes later.

太阳能方面的物理学家录下了这段视频，并将它放到了网上让全世界的人观看，几分钟之后就将其删除了。

But, not before it found its way onto YouTube and a series of specialist astronomy websites.

但是，不久之后在广泛流传的视频网站上和一系列专业的航天网站上又出现了它的踪影。

The footage has now been posted on the U.S. military's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division.

最近，它又被放到了美国海军实验研究所的太空科技板块上。

According to the website spaceweather.com: "[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.

根据一个名为spaceweather的网站说，这颗彗星是在9月30号的那个周五被天体爱好者发现的，但是第二天接近太阳时就以极快的速度瓦解了。

'The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the comet's last hours. The end was punctuated by an unexpected explosion.'

太阳能子午观测站记录下来这颗彗星的最后几个小时，它的结尾是由一个意想不到的爆炸完成的。