#Hubble Captures #Comet #NEOWISE
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The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the famous summer comet on August 8th.
On August 8th, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the famous Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) that graced our skies earlier this summer. The result is the closest image yet of the comet, which is now on its way out of the inner solar system. It won't return for another 7,000 years.
Hubble imaged the comet's coma, the nebulous envelope of dust and gas that surround the comet's nucleus, its rock-and-ice core. The coma measures 18,000 km (11,000 miles) across.
Researchers will further investigate the Hubble images to determine the nature of the dust that surrounds Comet NEOWISE, in part to see how heat from the comet's passage near the Sun changed the properties of its dust.
While Hubble can't see the comet's nucleus directly, estimates suggest it spans only 4.8 kilometers.
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/hubble-captures-comet-neowise/
The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the famous summer comet on August 8th.
On August 8th, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the famous Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) that graced our skies earlier this summer. The result is the closest image yet of the comet, which is now on its way out of the inner solar system. It won't return for another 7,000 years.
Hubble imaged the comet's coma, the nebulous envelope of dust and gas that surround the comet's nucleus, its rock-and-ice core. The coma measures 18,000 km (11,000 miles) across.
Researchers will further investigate the Hubble images to determine the nature of the dust that surrounds Comet NEOWISE, in part to see how heat from the comet's passage near the Sun changed the properties of its dust.
While Hubble can't see the comet's nucleus directly, estimates suggest it spans only 4.8 kilometers.
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