NASA Reports Comet C/2012 S1-ISON Expected to Hit The Atmosphere

Hubble Space capture of C/2012 S1 ISON on April 10th, 2013 Credit: NASA, ESA, J-Y, LI (Planetary Science Institute) , and dthe Hubble Comet ISON Imaging Science Team

NASA releases a Hubble Space Telescope captured image of Comet C/2012 S1 ISON that was taken on April 10th, 2013.  The comet is closely parallel to Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 394 million miles from Earth.  The closer the comet reaches Earth's orbit causes the frozen volatiles to sublimate.  

Astronomers measurements of the comet are relative to the width of Australia at a distance of around 3100 miles.  The nucleus of ISON is radius of the comet is about 2 miles long and distance approximately The comet is expected to reach more momentum on November 28th, as it get closer to the targeted suns surface.   The dust tail of the comet spans to an estimate length of 60,000 kilometers. The blue light included in the image was incorporated to examen the details of the comet. 

ISON (International Scientific Optical Network) stand for observatory groups located in ten countries  to conduct analysis of space activity.  Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, in part of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and directs ISON.



"Hubble Captures Comet ISON," http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/ison-view.html