Time-lapse video of Comet ISON hurtling toward sun mesmerizes internet | WATCH

NASA on vember 10 shared a mesmerizing throwback time-lapse sequence of most anticipated astromical event of May 2013 wherein  w missing comet ISON (C/2012 S1) was captured moving against a backdrop of stars by NASA's Hubble telescope. Taking to its official Instagram handle, NASA wrote that ISON, which was hurtling towards Sun at 48,000 miles per hour, "broke apart" as it passed near Sun in vember that year. impressive sungrazing comet C/2012 S1 is a scientific tell-tale of  self-destruction of galactic object that took at least 4 billion years in making and got detected when observers Vitali Nevski and Artyom vichok, near Kislovodsk, Russia, ticed a dim, fuzzy object while y scanned sky. 

In breathtaking video, comet ISON that went out of field of view of NASA sun-observing craft can be seen vibrantly lit, flowing rapidly close to sun. NASA captured  much-anticipated flyby to  sun by Comet ISON on Thanksgiving Day of year 2013 as it anticipated that bright object will go on to become a 'Great Comet'. However, "Comet ISON fell apart," said Karl Battams of NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign in a NASA release. But rar than mourn what we have lost, we should perhaps "rejoice in what we have gained—some of finest data in history of cometary astromy," he added. In throwback video posted by NASA, comet ISON captured on v. 28th can be seen nearing perihelion, its closest approach to sun. 

[This photo of Comet ISON was taken with TRAPPIST national telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory on v. 15, 2013. Im credit: TRAPPIST/E. Jehin/ESO]

[Here are two ims of Comet ISON taken hours apart, as comet was nearly closest to sun, showing a large amount of disintegration. comet had brightened on vember 27, but n it faded again shortly before perihelion on vember 28, which did t bode well for its survival. Im via ESA/NASA, antations by Karl Battams.]

[This gif is pre-perihelion, but it’s one of my favorite ims of Comet ISON. It’s Comet ISON (bigger and brighter) and Comet Encke from vember 19-22, 2013 as seen encountering solar wind. Im via NASA. Im via Karl Battams/NRL/NASA-CIOC.]

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Comet disintegrated and dispersed

According to NASA,  icy comet possessed an extensively riotous tail about 20 times wider than full Moon and a head bright eugh to see in pre-dawn eye with unaided eye was going to transform into a great comet. event was witnessed by nearly 32,000 people from a fleet of solar observatories including twin STEREO probes, Solar Dynamics Observatory, and SOHO. But while comet ISON approached sun brightly lit, it faded, disintegrating and dispersing as it headed closer to sun.  comet’s downfall that reached its climax at 1:41 p.m. EST on v. 28, 2013, confused astromers as it created a mystery around  tricks of orbital dynamics. Users on Instagram were mesmerized to witness spectacular event from years ago. 

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