Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Good news for comet watchers

Looks like there is some good news concerning comet ISON as reported in Nature.com. There is a good chance that ISON will survive the close approach with the Sun. And if it does, ISON will likely become visible to the naked eye in December.
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