<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2011_W3_(Lovejoy)" class="extiw" title="en:C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)">Comet Lovejoy</a>, formally C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), makes a close pass to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun" class="extiw" title="en:Sun">Sun</a>, and survives. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory" class="extiw" title="en:Solar Dynamics Observatory">Solar Dynamics Observatory</a> (SDO) is actually repointed to better observe the comet's approach to the Sun.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
2012-03-22
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3932">http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3932</a></li>
<li>Converted from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003932/frames/4096x4096_1x1_30p/">TIFF frames</a> using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/avconv" class="extiw" title="en:avconv">avconv</a>.</li></ul>