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Compass Image of Comet 46P/Wirtanen

Compass Image of Comet 46P/Wirtanen
  • Release Date
    December 20, 2018
  • Science Release
    NASA Telescopes Take a Close Look at the Brightest Comet of 2018
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, and D. Bodewits (Auburn University) and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute)

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Comet 46P/Wirtanen

Comet 46P/Wirtanen

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on December 13, when the comet was 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Earth. In the image, the comet’s nucleus is hidden in the center of a fuzzy glow from the comet’s coma. The coma is a cloud of gas and...

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Mar 28, 2025
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