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Cometary Close-Up

Featured on August 24, 2020

Hubble Space Telescope snapped a close-up view of the nucleus and coma of Comet NeoWISE on August 8. The image is shown in the inset, against a background photograph taken from Earth a few weeks earlier. The nucleus is only about three miles (4.8 km) in diameter, while the coma measures about 11,000 miles (18,000 km) across in the Hubble image. [NASA/ESA/STScI/Q. Zhang (Caltech)]

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Wide-angle and close-up views of Comet NeoWISE

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