No, Virginia, there will be no comet for Christmas this year
Looks like it didn't make it. One million year old comet Ison apparently disintegrated on its trip around the sun on Nov. 28.
According to USA Today: Like Icarus, comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the sun and broken up in its corona.
Scientists had hoped that the comet from the farthest reaches of the solar system would be able to slingshot around the sun Thursday and emerge streaming a tail visible to the naked eye next month.
But after NASA telescopes tracked the comet plunging into the sun's corona, no evidence of it emerged on the other side. Scientists said they would continue to analyze imagery from the telescopes for signs of the comet or debris from it breaking up.
"At this point, I do suspect that the comet has broken up and died," says Karl Battams, a comet scientist for the Naval Research Laboratory, who joined a NASA and Google+ chat from Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona. "Let's at least give it a couple of more hours before we start writing the obituary."
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