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Comet Ison 'destroyed in Sun pass'
- themstheones 13y agoWhat an anti-climax. I'm sure everyone in the hacker news community was eagerly anticipating the skies in December.
- ars 13y agoHopefully we'll get another Comet Ison (i.e. another comet by the ISON telescope network). I don't think this one should get exclusive rights to the name any further :)
- benjoffe 13y agoThis has been called too early, comets are very unpredictable and ISON appears to be brightening again as it loops around: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5480/11106507235_ec20b425d7_o.gif http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5480/11106507235_ec20b425d7_o.... (apparently the same thing happened with comet lovejoy). Somewhat up to date information is being posted to this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1rn7fb/rspace_comet_ison_perihelion_party_thread_get_in/ http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1rn7fb/rspace_comet_i...
- devindotcom 13y agoAFAIK the dust trail was expected to continue along the original path - it would brighten too as it caught the light, but I understand there is no nucleus visible.
- petercooper 13y agoYeah, something's coming through at least: https://twitter.com/CometISONnews/status/406205195253583872 https://twitter.com/CometISONnews/status/406205195253583872
- deletes 13y agoThe latest picture is pretty bright for just dust... http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2013/c3/20131128/20131128_2318_c3_512.jpg http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/...