For those of you not in the know, ISON is a comet that was recently discovered streaking towards our Sun. Today, of all days, was to be its grand stage as it rendezvoued with the Sun, reaching its perihelion, or closest distance to the Sun.
I followed it on Twitter today and the journey was an incredibly confusing one. Multiple times ISON’s nucleus was rumored to have disintegrated, only to have it reappear some time later. Then, it finally began its journey around the Sun, leaving a tail several million miles long as it did:
At that point, it was believed to finally meet its fate as nothing viable reappeared after its trip around the Sun.
That is until about 30 minutes ago when astronomers began noting that something did indeed seem to emerge. ISON is now believed to have survived its encounter with the Sun:
