Comet ISON Gets Roasted by Sun and Vanishes - Update
Call it a cosmic holiday miracle. The much-anticipated Comet ISON appeared to disintegrate during its Thanksgiving Day slingshot around the sun Thursday, but something — it seems — may have survived.
A NASA update released early Friday (Nov. 29) confirmed the sighting of what appears to be Comet ISON.
The question remains whether it is merely debris from the comet, or if some portion of the comet's nucleus survived, but late-night analysis from scientists with NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign suggest that there is at least a small nucleus intact.
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