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A solar eruption blasts the tail off a comet.

Comet Encke's tail is stripped away by a solar eruption in this time-lapse video created from data collected by NASA’s STEREO A spacecraft.

A wave of solar material (right, white) traveling at more than 1 million mph speeds toward comet Encke (left).

The passing wave detached the comet’s approximately 8 million-mile-long tail.

Within minutes the comet grew a new tail.