We Have Underestimated Our Sun's Destructive Reach

The Sun has enormous destructive power. Any objects that collide with the Sun, such as comets and asteroids, are immediately destroyed. But now we're finding that the Sun has the ability to reach out and touch asteroids at a far greater distance than previously thought. The proof of this came when a team at the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy was looking at Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) catalogued by the Catalina Sky Survey, and trying to understand what asteroids might be missing from t...