An amateur astronomer spotted a sun-plunging comet in solar observatory photographs taken a couple of days before the recent total solar eclipse. And he thought it would be visible in pictures taken during the eclipse.
Turns out he was right. The doomed space chunklet was indeed seen in pictures of the eclipse, which were pretty much spectacular.
Article first:
SOHO Observatory Spots Newly-Discovered Sungrazer Comet
And even though this picture is in a lot of articles, it's worth repeating.
Though it was destined to be destroyed in a Icarusian demise, it was going 450,000 miles an hour. Like they say in The Martian, "Are you kidding me?"
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