If the comet survived, I’m pretty sure it didn’t go “through” the sun.
Headline is a bit misleading. It went through the outer portion, the corona, supposedly. Then again, they may be wrong about that as well.
Yep, I think “corona” got chopped out of that sentence.
Exactly. It didn’t set the controls for the heart of the sun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtIBZNl3DY4