Watch Comet 96P/Macholz brighten as it flies by the sun in these time-lapses captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO).

Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/STEREO | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta

Music: Missing of Times by Joseph Beg / courtesy of Epidemic Sound