All eyes on ISON - Comet ISON to shine brighter than Hale-Bopp in November 2013

October 1st, 2013 will be the date to watch and the days leading up to. ISON will be very close to Mars and should give us some early indications of what this comet might be really made of.

I like stars!!!!

What kind of software is needed to show the video on Space.com? I run Firefox 3.6.

Dankeschön.

Gern geschehen!

Blue Kachina imo

From what I understand about this comet it will be naked eye visible during the day and the tail will cross the entire sky! This will be very interesting to say the least.

Did you have to stop fuking your sheep to type all that?

Since it will be as far away as the sun, I don't think that will happen...BUT, I'm not ruling out more asteroids out of the day sky from now on...

No because you will be able to see it for some time..

Once it gets near our sun it will melt and thats that as usual. Alot of so called great comets melt and break up.

Yes, it will be visible for months... supposedly. We will see.

New comets often out perform regular comets. they haven't been glazed over by star heat for a LONG time.

If DA14 was in company of rocks that felt down on Earth
imagine what could this beast bring down to us????????????!

This should be fun! I still remember gazing at HaleBopp back in 97 in a drunk and drugged out daze...LOL

Here is some more info and an animation of the trajectory

[link to comet-ison.info]

What a fucking creep

It almost looks like Ison will hit Mars on Oct. 1

[link to comet-ison.info]

"I saw Comet Pan-STARRS just before daybreak in the constellation Grus," says Bobillo. "This is what it looked like through a small telescope, imaged with an exposure time of 8x2 minutes."

In early March, Comet Pan-STARRS will make its closest approach to the sun inside the orbit of Mercury; at that time it could brighten to easy naked-eye visibility. No one knows exactly what will happen, however, because it is a fresh comet being exposed to solar heating for the first time. Experts discuss the possibilities in this video from Science@NASA. More: 3D orbit, ephemeris, light curves, NASA story.

COMET PAN-STARRS UPDATE: Comet Pan-STARRS (C/2011 L4), widely expected to become a naked-eye object in early March, is now closer to the sun than Venus. Solar heating is vaporizing the comet's icy core and creating a wide, fan-shaped tail visible through binoculars in the southern hemisphere. Ignacio Diaz Bobillo sends this picture from Buenos Aires, [link to spaceweather.com]

[link to earthsky.org]