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NASA’s Hubble accidentally caught a comet breaking apart in real time
In an incredibly lucky cosmic accident, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a comet breaking apart in real time—something astronomers have long tried and failed to observe. The comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), wasn’t even the original target, but when researchers pivoted to it, they unknowingly caught it mid-disintegration into multiple pieces.
The Hubble Space Telescope once again surprised the scientific community to grasp, for the first time with this level of detail, the fragmentation of a comet almost at the time it happened. The protagonist...
“Hubble Observes the Fragmentation of Comet C/2025 K1” – Meson Stars
“A Rare Observation of Cometary Breakup in Real Time” “Unexpected Hubble Data Reveals Comet Disintegration” https://youtube.com/watch?=vol9JPp9rxEc The Unexpected Breakup of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) In a rare and scientifically valuable observation, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the fragmentation of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) in real time. What makes this event particularly remarkable is not only the process itself, but…
This is called a "happy" space accident. In November 2025, when he was initially to point his sensors to a completely different subject, the Hubble Space Telescope was found at the first lodges of a rare spectacle: the brutal disintegration of the comet C/225 K1 (ATLAS). Coming from the ice-covered borders of the Oort cloud, this traveler is [...]
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