The Ison comet captured by the 'Soho' Space Telescope - The País.com (Spain)

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The Ison (right) comet approaching the sun, in an image obtained by the space observatory Soho Disco with covered star. / ESA / NASA / SOHO

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Ison comet on its way to the Sun, has now entered the field of view Soho space observatory. Seen in the image as a bright light down on the right. The photo is made hiding the

solar disk to avoid saturation of the telescope and detectors to distinguish the structures around it, is what is called a coronagraph

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Soho , a veteran NASA Solar Observatory and the European Space Agency (ESA), launched into space in 1995, is located at a distance of one and a half miles of Earth about a point, called L1, gravitational balance between the planet and the Sun where the star observed constantly.

image Ison, the Soho taken today at 9.07 (GMT), a cloud of solar material, an ejection of matter from the corona can be seen.

Ison will fly tomorrow

approaching the Sun to a distance of 1.24 million kilometers from its surface (closest approach), and scientists do not know if it will be destroyed in the encounter or survive, becoming a spectacular comet in sky in early December.