The sungrazing comet ISON came to perihelion i-e closest approach to the Sun on 28th November, 2013.
It seems it didn’t survive the Sun Encounter as scientists are not seeing any new Dust.
But some scientists are saying that some parts of this comet might have survived the Sun Encounter.
While the fate of the comet is not yet established, according to NASA it is likely that it did not survive the trip.
The comet grew faint while within both the view of NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, and the joint European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
The comet was not visible at all in NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
“We didn’t see Comet ISON in SDO,” said Dean Pesnell, project scientist for SDO.
“So we think it must have broken up and evaporated before it reached perihelion.”
While this means that Comet ISON will not be visible in the night sky in December as previously specified by NASA in this timeline of Comet ISON.
Comet ISON is known as a sungrazing comet, due to its close approach.
The comet was discovered last year by two amateur astronomers using Russia’s International Scientific Optical Network, or Ison.
Had the comet survived, it would have been easily visible in the northern hemisphere early next month.
