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A Cosmic Comet Breakup


Professor David Jewitt and his and his colleagues used Hubble to track the fragments of Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami, as they spread and break off the nucleus.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/science/hubble-telescope-breaking-comet.html?_r=1

Posted on Sept. 15, 2016