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Topic: Nasa / Space

Hubble brings closer look at our amazing comet

Summary: The Hubble Space Telescope showed more details of Comet ISON as it flew toward the sun on its way to possibly give us an incredible show later this year.

Andy Smith

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NASA's Swift satellite caught one of the first images of comet ISON on Jan. 30, 2013 with this 5.5-minute optical exposure. ISON was about 5,000 times fainter than the limit of human vision.

 Credit: NASSA/Swift/D. Bodewits, UMCP

 

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Topic: Nasa / Space

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  • Comet ISON

    I'll get the lemon-scented dust spray to clean the comet dust off my end tables!
    Andylb
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  • Comet ISON

    I'll get the lemon-scented dust spray to clean the comet dust off my end tables!
    Andylb
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  • spam spam spam

    seeing we can spam but not use anything that might be construed as obscene language so I'll make mine simple. Please send me $18,000 so i can py off my ex once and for all....... :)
    winddrift03
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  • Photos

    On image 6, please correct "sights" to "sites" then make yourself take a timeout...
    frabjous
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  • Slideshow can be improved

    Slideshow can be improved by not reloading whole page to change photos
    rk12345
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  • ISON approach

    I have marked my cal. for 11/28 and pray for clear a sky.
    dancac
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