Friday, December 13, 2013

Comet ISON's Demise

This webpage from the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA), an article titled "What Happened to Comet ISON?" by Dr. Tony Phillips, nicely recaps the disintegration of the comet on Thanksgiving Day (November 28th, 2013). Fortunately, astronomers captured Comet ISON in fascinating videos; the video below, taken by NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft with credit to Rob Matson, comes from the same website. You might notice a smaller comet (Comet Encke) in the video floating downwards and seemingly very close to ISON!

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Blog Background

The background has three Hubble Space Telescope images:

— LH 95 is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Dorado constellation.

— Ant Nebula (also called Menzel 3) is an aptly-named planetary nebula located in the constellation Norma.

— Egg Nebula (also called CL 2688) is a protoplanetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus.