>Clara Moskowitz, Mike Wall, Tariq Malik
>A view from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Comet Lovejoy as a thin, faint streak emerging from behind the sun.A newfound comet defied long odds Thursday, surviving a suicidal dive through the sun’s hellishly hot atmosphere.Comet Lovejoy plunged through the sun’s corona at about 7 p.m. ET, coming within 87,000 miles of our star’s surface. Temperatures in the corona can reach 2 million degrees Fahrenheit, so most researchers expected the icy wanderer to be completely destroyed.
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