Why is comet ISON's shape resembling a crop circle made four years ago?
Some think it is a cosmic prediction and the crop circle is a warning to humanity.
As comet ISON is on its way to the Sun its shape is changing due to our star's heat.
Comet ISON's luminosity rose dramatically with several observers reporting a considerable increase in brightness.
Its long journey began in the Oort cloud, almost a light year away. It has traveled for over a million years.
Now, it has almost reached the star that has pulled it steadily forward for so long. Here its inward journey through the solar system will end -- either because it will break up due to intense heat and gravity of the sun, or because, still intact, it speeds back away, never to return.
Comet ISON will pass by the Sun's surface on 28 November 28 at a relatively close distance of just over a million kilometers, but until recently, the object's brightness did not increase as much as initially hoped.
Now, scientists from Wendelstein Observatory and the MPS Research, who observed ISON on 14 and 16 November, offer their possible explanation sudden increase of its brightness.
Comet ISON entered the view of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory on Nov. 21, 2013, where it can be seen with Earth, Mercury and comet 2P/Encke. Four NASA solar observatories will watch ISON on Thanksgiving week until it slingshots around the sun on Nov. 28, 2013. Image Credit: Karl Battams/NASA/STEREO/CIOC
The analyses show two clearly visible structures in the comet's atmosphere which extend from the nucleus like wings.
The "wings" were still quite weak on 14 November, they clearly dominate the images taken two days later. Like the nucleus of the comet, its fragments also eject gas and dust into space.
A crop circle made back in 2009 is very similar to comet ISON. Is it a coincidence or something more serious?
The "wings" were still quite weak on 14 November, they clearly dominate the images taken two days later. Like the nucleus of the comet, its fragments also eject gas and dust into space.
A crop circle made back in 2009 is very similar to comet ISON. Is it a coincidence or something more serious?
Crop circles, often with very complex patterns have been detected in several countries. Most crop circles have been detected in United Kingdom and although many crop circles have been proven fakes there are still some that cannot be explained away.
Proponents of the belief that crop circles are either naturally caused, or are formed by as yet unknown entities, often refer to the old crop circle from 1674 known as the Mowing-Devil.
According to Greg Jefferys, an Australian PhD at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, who examined several patterns, crop circles remain unexplained.
The resemblance between comet ISON and the crop circle is striking.
A crop circle labeled a the "winged bird" was made in on June 29, 2009, of the South Field, Alton Priors in the UK.
There are now those who think that the creators of this four year-old crop circle, was trying to make a prediction of the comet ISON.
Is it a warning to humanity?
Source: MessageToEagle