Hubble takes close-up images of disintegrating comet
Using NASA’s Hubble space telescope, astronomers have captured what they claim are the most detailed images of a disintegrating comet, 107 million km from Earth. The images taken in January show building-sized pieces of ice-dust mixtures separating from the 4.5-billion-year-old comet. The images suggest the comet may be spinning so fast that the material started getting ejected from its surface.