Hubble Sees Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 09:31
in Astronomy & Space
This is a Hubble Space Telescope picture of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as observed on March 11, 2014. At that time the comet was 353 million miles from Earth. While analyzing this Hubble data, astronomers detected two jets of dust coming off the comet's nucleus in opposite directions.