NASA news: Comet ATLAS disintegrates before Hubble Space Telescope – 'Really exciting'

As the comet disintegrates on its journey around the Sun, some of the pieces that have broken off are as big as a house. Before the comet began to fall apart, NASA estimates it was comparable in length to one or two football fields. Quanzhi Ye, of the University of Maryland, College Park, part of […]

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