Hubble Brings Faraway Comet ISON Into View
Comet may be among night sky's brightest lights this fall.The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their clearest view yet of Comet ISON, a newly-discovered sun grazer comet that may light up the sky later this year, or come so close to the Sun that it disintegrates. A University of Maryland-led research team is closely following ISON, which offers a rare opportunity to witness a comet’s evolution as it makes its first-ever journey through the inner solar system.
Like all comets, ISON is a “ dirty snowball” – a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust, formed in a distant reach
