APOD: Surprising Comet ISON (2013 Nov 30)

[neufer]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Thank you for sharing this stunning images. I love the background electroacoustic music too. Who's credit is it?
More, more and more of the beauty and mystery above us.

[bystander]

I love the background electroacoustic music too. Who's credit is it?

Soundtrack: Hydroscope by Galaxy Six

[Chappy]

There once was a Comet named ISON
Twas promised "The best you'll lay Eyes on"
although near the end
it did brighten again
it fizzled out into a Bye-Gone

LOL, very well done!

On a different track now...
I'm never disappointed in the pseudo-science world in coming up with bizarre theories and ISON has provided them with plenty of ammo over the last while. While it's unfortunate that these crack-pots make some "less than educated" people actually fearful for their very lives, they can always be counted on for a few laughs as they spout the latest wild "end of everything" theories and point to well known (and some not so well known) "weird science" sites as proof. I actually cringe when using the word "science" in relation to those sites because they really don't use anything remotely close to real science when explaining their theories.

Anyway, I'm waiting impatiently to see what comes of the latest portion of ISON's life (or death) in the largest psuedo-news site, YouBoob.

[Chappy]

The Indians avoid all that Buffalo Bull. They call Bison... Tatonka.

If you haven't had these, you don't know what you're missing.

Mmm, that looks like it would be delish there Chris, I'll have to see where a Canadian fella might find some of these. I've had some Tatunka Stout before, might be nice to wash down the Buffalo bites with a good hardy Stout!
Cheers!!

[geckzilla]

Shhhh, Chappy. We're working very hard to hide the evidence for aliens at the forum.

[Nitpicker]

We're working very hard to hide the evidence for aliens at the forum.

To me, this seems a little like the "Buffalo buffalo ... buffalo ... buffalo" sentence you mentioned earlier.

It could mean:

1) You are working hard at the forum to hide the evidence of aliens.

2) There are aliens at the forum for whom you are working hard to hide evidence.

3) You are working hard at the forum to hide from the aliens, the evidence for aliens.

This list is not exhaustive, either. Suspicious? Hmmm. At this point, if you were to claim to be an Earthling, one could only conclude that that is exactly the sort of thing an alien would say, and -- though I'm no lawyer -- aliens should be burnt at the Sun after being cast into orbit around the nearest sun-grazing comet.

[bystander]

We're working very hard to hide the evidence for aliens at the forum.

It could mean:

1) You are working hard at the forum to hide the evidence of aliens.

2) There are aliens at the forum for whom you are working hard to hide evidence.

3) You are working hard at the forum to hide from the aliens, the evidence for aliens.

You are correct, sir. I am not at liberty to say anything further.

[Beyond]

Thanks, bystander.

[Anthony Barreiro]

Setting aside grammar trees, buffalo, bison, jerky, and beer, I'm very happy I was able to see Comet ISON three times through binoculars before perihelion. I know of only two other people who saw ISON from within the San Francisco city limits.

By the way, Babak Tafreshi's well edited video is the clearest depiction I have seen of Comet ISON's final few days before and after perihelion. Great work, thanks!

[BMAONE23]

Here is another celestial view of ISON from a different perspective

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