One of the captured images from comet C / 2012 S1 (Image source: Reproduction / Remanzacco Observatory)

2012 is barely over, but astronomers and space-seekers can't wait for November 2013, the month when comet C / 2012 S1 will be seen with the naked eye by Earth's inhabitants. Although it is still too early to accurately define the star's trajectory - and this is necessary to accurately estimate its brightness - the Russian astronomers who discovered it believe it may be brighter than the full moon.

At the moment, the comet is close to Jupiter's orbit, and according to its characteristics, scientists believe it has its origin in the Oort cloud, a hypothetical (ie not directly observed) region around our Solar System and that astronomers believe harbor thousands of comets and asteroids.

C / 2012 S1 (also nicknamed ISON) will be approaching the sun on November 29, 2013, and will be visible to prying eyes until January 2014.