Comet survives pass through solar corona

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Comet Lovejoy spent nearly an hour in the solar atmosphere experiencing temperatures that reached into the millions of degrees. The comet was discovered by an amateur astronomer just a couple of weeks ago. On Friday it passed within a 120,000 km of the surface of the sun and lived to tell the tale. The encounter was captured by several space based instruments including NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and twin STEREO probes, Europe's Proba2 microsatellite, and the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. There is video of the encounter on the link below.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sci...etlovejoy/

There is also a link to a story with some pretty cool video of Comet Encke being hit by a coronal mass ejection in 2007.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sci...oct_encke/