Comet ISON had a on Thanksgiving, but there’s evidence it may have survived.
“Continuing a history of surprising behavior, material from Comet ISON appeared on the other side of the sun on the evening of Nov. 28, 2013,” states on Friday.
The 4.5-billion-year-old space rock — described by the Associated Press as “” — came within 1 million miles of the sun Thursday. As it got close, the roughly two-thirds of a mile wide comet disappeared from NASA’s observatories and many scientists thought it had entirely disintegrated, reports NASA. The comet reappeared later as a streak of bright material heading away from the sun.
“Late-night analysis from scientists with NASA’s Comet ISON Observing Campaign suggest that there is at least a small nucleus intact,” says .
