Sungrazing comet

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A sungrazing comet is a comet that passes extremely close to the Sun at perihelion – sometimes within a few thousand kilometres from the Sun's surface. Although small sungrazers can completely evaporate during such a close approach to the Sun, larger sungrazers can survive many perihelion passages.

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Image: NASA/Dan Burbank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.