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Comet ISON starts as a streak (left),
disappears into the sun’s corona (red) and fades (right) as it emerges
from the close encounter. This composite, time-lapse image shows the
comet’s path from November 28 to December 1.
SDO/SOHO/ESA & NASA
4 comments:
I still do not really understand what the Oort Cloud is, but it is still cool that a comet that is not in regular orbit of Earth came so close to us. Now that it lost its nucleus and is just dust, wouldn't it just burn from being so close to the sun?
I found this article to be a horrible one. I would give it a 1 out of 10. Do the expect us to know what the Oort cloud is? The details in this article were nonexistent!! I mean when something come close to the sun does it not just burn up?? Well here is some advice, DO NOT READ THIS ARTICLE!!! I could have writen a better article with some reserch!!
I read this article thinking that Jacob and Morgan may be exaggerating about the fact that it was bad. Unfortunately, they were completely right. This was the shortest article I read yet, and that was a contribution to its badness. I learned nothing important, but I got the sense that this could be potentially extremely interesting. So I did some research. It turns out, the Oort cloud is AMAZING. It extends for 3 light years, and is trillions of kilometers from the sun. Apparently, a comet was pushed from this cloud with some gravitational energy. It moved closer to the sun, and as it got closer, the layers of ice and the nucleus melted, leaving just dust behind. Conclusively, the article: bad, follow-up research: great.
I agree with what everyone else has said. It was a short article with zip details, but it did provoke some research questions for afterwards. Turns out the Oort cloud is a very colorful (or it appears so) and interesting. It is intriguing how we know so much from something so far away from our solar system. I mean, it pretty much remains from the beginning of time. In conclusion, I agree with Benjamin that the research following the article was very informative.
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