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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.

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Jupiter's stratosphere

NASA also reported that almost all water present in Jupiter's stratosphere, an intermediate atmospheric layer, originated from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which gave quite a show in 1994 when it impacted Jupiter's atmosphere.

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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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