Comet Hyakutake, as imaged by the C3 coronagraph of the Naval Research Laboratory's LASCO instrument on the SOHO spacecraft on 2 May 1996. This picture shows the comet to the north of the Sun. The bright region near the Sun is a coronal mass ejection.

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