Wednesday, November 27, 2013

MAY BE LAST CHANCE TO SEE

Comet ISON rounding the nearest star on Thanksgiving afternoon at a distance of 750,000 miles from the sun. If it makes it around OK it will be huge as it heads outbound to the Oort Cloud.

Those of us basking in the dull red glow of the underlit storm clouds around Pittsburgh will probably strike out again.

(Credit: NASA/MSFC/Aaron Kingery)

1 comment:

HMS Defiant said...

Oh we'll. it looks like the nucleus didn't survive closest approach to the sun. I imagine the nuclear fires are a lot hotter just 773,000 miles from the surface.