Comet makes suicidal plunge into Sun 

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - 19:30 in Astronomy & Space

A small comet dove headlong toward the sun this week in a cosmic death-dive captured on camera by a spacecraft — an opening act of sorts for the highly anticipated close solar approach of another comet, Comet ISON, in a few months' time.

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