Comet ISON has moved quite close to the sun as seen by from ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory in 2013. This image is a composite with the sun imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in the center, and SOHO showing the solar atmosphere, the corona.
Credits: ESA&NASA/SOHO/SDO
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