RIP Comet ISON, 4.5 Billion BC – Nov. 28, 2013
While hope remained over the weekend that Comet ISON may have survived its close encounter with the Sun, the 4.5 billion year-old comet fragmented on November 28.
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While hope remained over the weekend that Comet ISON may have survived its close encounter with the Sun, the 4.5 billion year-old comet fragmented on November 28.
NASA released the image above that is a time-lapse of ISON’s journey around the Sun.
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