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Comet ISON Passes Through Virgo
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Date: 8 Nov 2013 - Comet ISON shines in this five-minute exposure taken at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Nov. 8, 2013.. The image was captured using a color CCD camera attached to a 14" telescope located at Marshall. At the time of this picture, comet ISON was 97 million miles from Earth, moving ever closer toward the sun.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineComet ISON Passes Through Virgo. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001322.