CDailyviewE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Dailyview) — The Hubble House Telescope has captured the very best image but of a high-speed comet visiting our photo voltaic system from one other star.
NASA and the European House Company launched the newest pictures Thursday.
Found final month by a telescope in Chile, the comet generally known as 3I-Atlas is just the third recognized interstellar object to cross our method and poses no menace to Earth.
Astronomers initially estimated the dimensions of its icy core at a number of miles (tens of kilometers) throughout, however Hubble’s observations have narrowed it right down to not more than 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers). It may even be as small as 1,000 ft (320 meters), in accordance with scientists.
The comet is hurtling our method at 130,000 mph (209,000 kph), however will veer nearer to Mars than Earth, maintaining a protected distance from each. It was 277 million miles (446 million kilometers) away when photographed by Hubble a pair weeks in the past. The orbiting telescope revealed a teardrop-shaped plume of mud across the nucleus in addition to traces of a dusty tail.
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