It may not look like much in this sequence of images taken by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft from a distance of half a billion miles in January, but the comet identified as C/2012 S1 (ISON ...
Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th. SOHO's venerable LASCO C3 imager caught the comet near the Sun, as it topped ...