{"id":3197,"date":"2013-07-05T05:21:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T05:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2013-07-05T05:21:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T05:21:44","slug":"comet-ison-moves-in-sight-of-hubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3197","title":{"rendered":"Comet ISON moves in sight of Hubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hubble telescope captures a sequence of images of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C\/2012_S1\" target=\"_d\">Comet ISON<\/a> as moves towards the sun:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/comet-ison-brings-holiday-fireworks\/index.html#.UdZTa6wlI4k\" target=\"_d\">Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This July Fourth the solar system is showing off some fireworks of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Superficially resembling a skyrocket, comet ISON is hurtling toward the sun presently at a whopping 48,000 mph.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YAOaDBx3qo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Its swift motion is captured in this time-lapse movie made from a sequence of pictures taken May 8, 2013, by NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope. At the time the images were taken, the comet was 403 million miles from Earth, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>The movie shows a sequence of Hubble observations taken over a 43-minute span and compresses this into just five seconds. The comet travels 34,000 miles in this brief video, or 7 percent of the distance between Earth and the moon. The deep-space visitor streaks silently against the background stars.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a firework, the comet is not combusting, but in fact is pretty cold. Its skyrocket-looking tail is really a streamer of gas and dust bleeding off the icy nucleus, which is surrounded by a bright star-like-looking coma. The pressure of the solar wind sweeps the material into a tail, like a breeze blowing a windsock.<\/p>\n<p>As the comet warms as it moves closer to the sun, its rate of sublimation (a process similar to evaporation in which solid matter transitions directly into gas) will increase. The comet will get brighter and its tail will grow longer. The comet is predicted to reach naked-eye visibility in November.<\/p>\n<p>The comet is named after the organization that discovered it, the Russia-based International Scientific Optical Network.<\/p>\n<p>This false-color, visible-light image was taken with Hubble\u2019s Wide Field Camera 3.<\/p>\n<p>The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc., in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CometISONp1324aw_0_450x450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"CometISONp1324aw_0_450x450\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CometISONp1324aw_0_450x450.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/asteroids\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u203a\u00a0NASA&#8217;s Asteroids and Comet Watch website<\/a><br \/>\n\u203a\u00a0More on this image from the Space Telescope Science Institute: <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/news\/2013\/24\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/heritage.stsci.edu\/2013\/24\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hubble telescope captures a sequence of images of Comet ISON as moves towards the sun: Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks\u00a0 This July Fourth the solar system is showing off some fireworks of its own. Superficially resembling a skyrocket, comet ISON is hurtling toward the sun presently at a whopping 48,000 mph. Its swift motion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comet ISON moves in sight of Hubble<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-multiple-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Pz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5512,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5512","url_meta":{"origin":3197,"position":0},"title":"The ISON story continues","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest on comet ISON: NASA Investigating the Life of Comet ISON After several days of continued observations, scientists continue to work to determine and to understand the fate of Comet ISON: There's no doubt that the comet shrank in size considerably as it rounded the sun and there's no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Asteroids &amp; Comets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Asteroids &amp; Comets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=75"},"img":{"alt_text":"Comet ISON comes in from the bottom right and moves out toward the upper right, getting fainter and fainter.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/673xvariable_height\/public\/soho_c3_timelapse_new_0.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4857,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4857","url_meta":{"origin":3197,"position":1},"title":"Comet ISON moving closer","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The comet\u00a0C\/2012 S1, or ISON as it is called, will pass close to the sun this November. The big question is whether it will put on a big show for the unaide eyes of everyone or just be visible to those looking through telescopes. At the moment is it is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skycenter.arizona.edu\/sites\/skycenter.arizona.edu\/files\/imagecache\/temp_gallery\/ison_10082013.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skycenter.arizona.edu\/sites\/skycenter.arizona.edu\/files\/imagecache\/temp_gallery\/ison_10082013.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skycenter.arizona.edu\/sites\/skycenter.arizona.edu\/files\/imagecache\/temp_gallery\/ison_10082013.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5469,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5469","url_meta":{"origin":3197,"position":2},"title":"Comet ISON swings around the sun [Update]","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Comet ISON\u00a0 swung behind the Sun today. Initial reports were that it did not survive its close encounter with the big heat but others are now saying that there appears to be a small object that remains on the same trajectory. Will watch for updates. 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