Speaking purely as a non-scientist, I wouldn’t really have expected an intense bombardment of solar radiation combined with a randomly simultaneous comet collision AND a huge coronal mass ejection to be especially soothing, and yet, the proof is in the below video.

For me, however, the most intriguing question is how all this somehow produced that exceedingly calming background music . . . I guess science is just sort of inexplicably awesome.

[“Watch As This Commet Plunges Directly Into The Sun,” IO9-Blog, 8/21/2013]