Itappears that we have a bright comet heading this way in late nextyear. What we know right now is that it will be bright and possiblysuper bright before it is all over. So it is worth the effort to beready for it.
Thiscould also be a major outgasser and provide us with a giant tail towatch. Cross your fingers.
Inthe event this is our first notice and I am sure it will be followedwith plenty of other stories. It has real potential to bespectacular although folks will keep quiet because we have beenskunked before. This at least seems to be a new event.
Astronomers havediscovered a new supercomet that will be fifteen times brighter thanthe moon when it crosses the night sky next year.
Coming to the nightsky, the comet fifteen times brighter than the moon
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9567598/Coming-to-the-night-sky-the-comet-fifteen-times-brighter-than-the-moon.html
Calculations show thatthe celestial visitor could be dazzlingly bright in November 2013 andbe easily visible in broad daylight as it rounds the Sun.
Comet ISON is so namedbecause it was first spotted on photos taken by Vitali Nevski andArtyom Novichonok from Russia using the International ScientificOptical Network telescope.
It is currently veryfaint because it is out in the depths of space near Jupiter's orbit.But it will steadily brighten over the coming months until it passesless than two million km from the Sun on November 28.
That makes it a typeof comet called a sungrazer, and there is a risk that the comet -essentially a giant ball of rock and ice, will break up when it makesthat close approach.
But it could becomebrighter than the greatest comet of the last century, CometIkeya-Seki, which excited astronomers in 1965.
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