NASA has assembled a corps of comet experts at Kitt Peak this week to observe Comet ISON with the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope and keep track of the comet through its armada of space telescopes.
Comet ISON, shown here, was a sungrazing comet, or "star-grazer," that passed within roughly 730,000 miles of the Sun's surface in November 2013. — Wikipedia via ESA/Hubble A newly discovered comet is ...
In September 2012, Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok discovered Comet C/2012 S1; as they were using a telescope from the International Scientific Optical Network, the comet was ...