Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet
![Pieces of Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami broke off of the main nucleus in late 2015 as the icy, ancient comet approached the sun in its orbit. Credits: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA) Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/hubblecometvideogifv1635a332p160831-1041.gif)
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured one of the sharpest, most detailed observations of a comet breaking apart, which occurred 67 million miles from Earth. In a series of images taken over a three-day span in January 2016, Hubble revealed 25 building-size blocks made of a mixture of ice and dust that are drifting […]