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These images from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope of C/2012 S1 Comet ISON were taken on June 13, when ISON was 310...
Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at a whopping 48,000 miles per hour in...
Taken on 19 Nov. 2013, this image shows a composite "stacked" image of comet ISON. These five stacked...
In this modeled image of ISON, the coma has been subtracted, leaving behind the nucleus. Credit: NASA, ESA, the...
This frame from an animation series of images of comet C/2012 S1 ISON was taken by the Medium-Resolution Imager of...
Date: 8 Nov 2013 - Comet ISON shines in this five-minute exposure taken at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on...
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet (C/2012 S1) ISON was photographed on April 10, 2013, when the comet...
On April 30, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed Comet ISON again. The comet is in the upper middle, showing the...
Date: 19 Nov 2013 Comet ISON shows off its tail in this three-minute exposure taken on 19 Nov. 2013 at 6:10 a.m....
Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at a whopping 48,000 miles per hour. Its...
On Oct. 9, 2013, Hubble observed comet ISON once again, when it was inside the orbit of Mars, about 177 million...
As of mid-November, ISON is officially upon us. Using Hubble, we've taken our closest look yet at the innermost...
This image from NASA Hubble Space Telescope of the sunward plunging comet ISON suggests that the comet is intact...
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet (C/2012 S1) ISON was photographed on April 10, 2013, when the comet...
"Timelapse" series of images of comet ISON as viewed by ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or...
This movie shows Comet ISON orbiting around the sun – represented by the white circle -- on Nov. 28, 2013. ISON...
Release Date: November 25, 2013 MESSENGER image of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) during its closest approach to Mercury. At...
This movie from NASA’s STEREO spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over...
Comet ISON comes in from the bottom right and moves out toward the upper right, growing more faint, in this...
This movie from NASA’s STEREO spacecraft's Heliospheric Imager shows Comet ISON, Mercury, Comet Encke and Earth over...
Comet ISON swoops around the sun and through Scorpius. This composite merges an SDO AIA 171 sun image (Nov. 28, 2214...
As comets C/2012 S1 ISON and the well-known short-period comet 2P/Encke both approached their closest distances to...
ISS038-E-007980 (23 Nov. 2013) --- A close inspection of this image, photographed by one of the Expedition 38 crew...
A merger of SOHO LASACO C2 data observed at 12:42 pm and C3 observed at 12:37 pm on November 28, 2013. Credit...