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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
Anyone else as psyched about this as I am?

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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:

you're just a racist cunt

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
You fuckers are daft if that's all the response comet ISON has gotten. Yeah, I know that Jongs is oatmeal from the forehead on back, and let's not even talk about Rappy, but the rest of you?

Whatever. I'll just pretend to believe that there are brains besides mine that care about what is *real* out there beyond the messed-up-ness of humans. This is for them.

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Originally posted by BIGDAMNNOBODY:

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
You fuckers are daft if that's all the response comet ISON has gotten. Yeah, I know that Jongs is oatmeal from the forehead on back, and let's not even talk about Rappy, but the rest of you?

Whatever. I'll just pretend to believe that there are brains besides mine that care about what is *real* out there beyond the messed-up-ness of humans. This is for them.

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Wow! Crave attention much?

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Originally posted by BIGDAMNNOBODY:

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
You fuckers are daft if that's all the response comet ISON has gotten. Yeah, I know that Jongs is oatmeal from the forehead on back, and let's not even talk about Rappy, but the rest of you?

Whatever. I'll just pretend to believe that there are brains besides mine that care about what is *real* out there beyond the messed-up-ness of humans. This is for them.

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Wow! Crave attention much?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Not much of a stargazer myself, but hubby loves anything solar/ stellar. I'll let him know!

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Originally posted by G:
I did catch a bit of a PBS special last night on ISON. Have to say, the dramatic slingshot ellipse freaks me out a bit, but then I've always thought Catastrophe (whether of our making or not) feels like the right way for us to buy it. We'd all be busy with our little big ideas and WHAM! Perspective, darkness.

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Even more unsettling though, the infrared video of the sun's surface, all the turmoil, all the solar flares, e-fucking-gads it's busy. I want to throw a blanket over it. I understand why folks freaked out when Haley's comet would come by.

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fwiw - if I had a teacher, male or female, who addressed the class as "You fuckers..." I think they'd be one of my favs.

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Like Icarus, comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the sun and broken up in its corona.

Scientists had hoped that the comet from the farthest reaches of the solar system would be able to slingshot around the sun Thursday and emerge streaming a tail visible to the naked eye next month.

But after NASA telescopes tracked the comet plunging into the sun's corona, no evidence of it emerged on the other side. Scientists said they would continue to analyze imagery from the telescopes for signs of the comet or debris from it breaking up.

"At this point, I do suspect that the comet has broken up and died," says Karl Battams, a comet scientist for the Naval Research Laboratory, who joined a NASA and Google+ chat from Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona. "Let's at least give it a couple of more hours before we start writing the obituary."


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/28/comet-ison-nasa/3
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Comet Ison, or some part of it, may have survived its encounter with the Sun, say scientists.

The giant ball of ice and dust was initially declared dead when it failed to re-emerge from behind the star with the expected brightness.

All that could be seen was a dull smudge in space telescope images - its nucleus and tail assumed destroyed.

But recent pictures have indicated a brightening of what may be a small fragment of the comet.

Astronomers admit to being surprised and delighted, but now caution that anything could happen in the coming hours and days.

This remnant of Ison could continue to brighten, or it could simply fizzle out altogether.

"We've been following this comet for a year now and all the way it has been surprising us and confusing us," said astrophysicist Karl Battams, who operates the US space agency-funded Sungrazing Comets Project.

"It's just typical that right at the end, when we said, 'yes, it has faded out, it's died, we've lost it in the Sun', that a couple of hours later it should pop right back up again," he told BBC News.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Did ya NOT notice the post, right above yours ?

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“We have no idea how big this nucleus is, if there is indeed one. If there is a nucleus, it is still too soon to tell how long it will survive. If it does survive for more than a few days, it is too soon to tell if the comet will be visible in the night sky. If it is visible in the night sky, it is too soon to say how bright it will be... “

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Comet ISON reached perihelion at 18:25 UT (10:25 PT) today. It's an event that's being watched around the world, accompanied by tons of commentary and streams of photos. We will update this blog entry periodically with links to all the resources that we hear of for following the comet's progress.

Update: It's not dead yet! Read the latest Comet ISON Observing Campaign blog entry for the latest, utterly baffling status report.

Had enough animations yet? Here's one from the STEREO Behind spacecraft, a unique perspective on the comet rounding the Sun. I (Emily) am not sure why it's so much brighter in this view than in the SOHO ones -- I suspect that the viewing geometry makes dust much more visible than from other points of view.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/comet-ison-live-b
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