... Astroimager Gerald Rhemann of Vienna, Austria, took this photo of Comet ISON (C/2012) on November 12, 2013, showing that the object's tail is beginning to develop some structure. ...
... As the comet moves closer to the Sun, its coma will expand, and eventually pressure from the solar wind will cause some of the material to stream out into a long tail. ...
... Here, the comet appears near the bright star Alpha Lupi. ... shows a strong greenish emission of C2, meanwhile its dust tail is projected toward southeast with a longitude of more than 1.5 ...
... Тљ . When comets reach the inner solar system, their dusty ices melt and vaporize to form huge tails blown back by the solar wind and sunlight. ...
... it s still invisible to the naked eye, Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) is brightening as ... growing outer atmosphere that astronomers call the coma, and its lengthening tail ... And, as we see here, long-exposure images also show the comet s greenish color. ...
... Comet ISON s dusty coma, or head of the comet, is approximately 3,100 miles (5,000km ... A dust tail extends more than 57,000 miles (92,000km), far beyond Hubble s field of ...
... Although still invisible to the naked eye, Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) is brightening as ... growing outer atmosphere that astronomers call the coma, and its lengthening tail ...