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Comet Hale-Bopp
- Object NameObject NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.Comet Hale-Bopp
- Release DateOctober 10, 1995
- Science ReleaseHubble Sees Material Ejected from Comet Hale-Bopp
- CreditScience Release Credit: H.A. Weaver (Applied Research Corp.), P.D. Feldman (The Johns Hopkins University), and NASA
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Material Ejected from Comet Hale-Bopp
These NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures of comet Hale-Bopp show a remarkable "pinwheel" pattern and a blob of free-flying debris near the nucleus. The bright clump of light along the spiral (above the nucleus, which is near the center of the frame) may be a piece of the...
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Mar 28, 2025
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