Tag: Comet ISON

• Death of a comet (Science Advent 12)

  (Every day until December 25, I’m posting a science-related image or video and description.) Day 12 Perhaps no transient event in astronomy is as evocative as a comet. They appear rarely enough to be significant occasions, and when they pass close to Earth can stretch across a significant amount of the sky. To me at…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 12, 2013

  Astronomy

  Advent 2013, Comet ISON, comets