NASAs Hubble telescope just saw the space version of a white whale
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For practically as long as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has circled Earth, astronomers have wanted to use it to see a comet as it's breaking apart.
Many researchers have proposed such observations in the past, but because comet breakups are hard to anticipate, no one had achieved it — until now. By a stroke of luck, a team of scientists has, at long last, caught one in the act.
The researchers looked at the comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), only because there were some technical issues preventing them from observi...
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