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Comet ISON<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0has increased in brightness significantly in the past day :\u00a0Comet ISON Comes to Life! – Homepage Observing\/SkyandTelescope.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Veteran comet observer John Bortle reports that Comet ISON is undergoing a major outburst. It was six times brighter when he observed it this morning (November 14th) than on the previous morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comet ISON\u00a0\u00a0has increased in brightness significantly in the past day :\u00a0Comet ISON Comes to Life! – Homepage Observing\/SkyandTelescope.com Veteran comet observer John Bortle reports that Comet ISON is undergoing a major outburst. It was six times brighter when he observed it this morning (November 14th) than on the previous morning.<\/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":[12,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1nm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5274,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5274","url_meta":{"origin":5292,"position":0},"title":"Comets ISON and Lovejoy in timelapse video","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Photographer\u00a0Justin Ng\u00a0created these\u00a0timelapse sequences of Comet ISON and Comet Lovejoy\u00a0images (via\u00a0Universe Today). 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