How to Find the Comet of the Century Using Your iPad

If you can tear yourself away from the golden brown turkey on your Thanksgiving table and gaze skyward, you may just see a once-in-a generation sight: a comet, or what’s left of it, streaking brightly across the sky. ISON, the so-called comet of the century, has been the center of much fascination for space aficionados and those who get paid to pay attention: NASA.

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Seeing a comet is cool on its own. Witnessing one that may immolate or disintegrate as it blazes by the sun within 730,000 miles is a bonus that turned ISON into something special. So special, in fact, that NASA tried to launch a giant balloon, BRRISON, to monitor the possibly doomed comet. Sadly, the payload suffered a glitch shortly after launch and has been unable to collect data since September. Read more...

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