{"id":5469,"date":"2013-11-28T20:41:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2013-11-29T06:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T06:14:11","slug":"comet-ison-swings-around-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5469","title":{"rendered":"Comet ISON swings around the sun [Update]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ison\/#.UpQ6ldJDttA\" target=\"_d\">Comet ISON<\/a>\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.<\/p>\n<p>[ <strong>Update 1:10 am Nov.29.13<\/strong>: It&#8217;s still unclear as to whether there is a substantial remnant of the ISON core remaining after the comet&#8217;s encounter with the sun or if there is just a fading dust cloud:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/2013\/11281948-schroedingers-comet.html\" target=\"_d\">Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Comet &#8211; \u00a0The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceflightnow.com\/news\/n1311\/28ison\/#.UpgvitJDttA\" target=\"_d\">Scientists baffled by new pictures of Comet ISON &#8211; Spaceflight Now<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>]<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s are some great images of \u00a0ISON taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">SOHO<\/a> spacecraft before it went around the sun: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/comet-ison-streams-toward-the-sun\/#.UpeA89JDttA\" target=\"_d\">Comet ISON Streams Toward the Sun &#8211; NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2013\/comet-ison-live-blog.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"ISON approaches the Sun as seen from SOHO LASCO C3 (Nov 28, 2013)\" src=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/9-small-bodies\/2013\/20131128_ison_lasco-c3_20131128_1537_c3_1024.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>NASA \/ ESA \/ SOHO \/ Emily Lakdawalla<br \/>\nISON approaches the Sun as seen from SOHO LASCO C3 (Nov 28, 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This animation contains 123 images captured by the SOHO spacecraft between November 26 at 21:20 UT and November 28 at 15:37 UT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/comet-ison-streams-toward-the-sun\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Comet ISON Streams Toward the Sun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/430x323\/public\/20131127_0807_c3_1024_soho.jpg?itok=M66Sb0hQ\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" name=\"\/sites\/all\/themes\/custom\/NASAOmegaHTML5\/images\/spacer.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"image_detail\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/goddard\/comet-ison-at-930am-est\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Comet ISON moves ever closer to the sun in this image from ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured at 9:30 a.m. EST on Nov. 28, 2013.\" alt=\"Comet ISON moves ever closer to the sun in this image from ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured at 9:30 a.m. EST on Nov. 28, 2013.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/946xvariable_height\/public\/ison_soho-sdo_nov28_still_1.jpg?itok=KyRweetA\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Latest updates at<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ison\/#.UpeBodJDttA\" target=\"_d\">Comet ISON | NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2013\/comet-ison-live-blog.html\" target=\"_d\">Comet ISON live blog -The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. [ Update 1:10 am Nov.29.13: It&#8217;s still unclear as to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comet ISON swings around the sun [Update]<\/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":[12,37,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-events","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1qd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5428,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5428","url_meta":{"origin":5469,"position":0},"title":"Comet ISON update &#8211; Swinging around the sun, Images from NASA spacecraft, and more","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As mentioned earlier,\u00a0Comet ISON\u00a0has brightened considerably as it has gotten closer to the sun. 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