By Susan Duclos Well, Thanksgiving day comet watchers had a very interesting time as every report on whether Comet ISON survived it's encounter with the sun seemed to contradict the previous report. Some saying it completely disintegrated, others claiming it came around intact. Updated information is still being analyzed but the picture is a little clearer. Something survived according to Discovery News, who calls premature reports of ISON's demise, "greatly exaggerated." Remarking on the debris stream, NASA’s Tony Phillips of Spaceweather.com said: “It could be a small fragment of Comet ISON’s nucleus or perhaps a “headless comet” — a stream of debris marking the remains of the comet’s disintegrated core.” Then, in some striking images released by SoHO’s LASCO instrument (pictured top), which has a wide-angle view of the sun’s lower atmosphere (the corona), a very comet-like object appears to have survived after perihelion.
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