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05-13-2016, 01:52 AM
This comet looks like a sprinkler twirling through space
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A newly-released ****** of photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show never-before-seen details of a comet as it passed by Earth on April 4.*
The comet, named*252P/LINEAR, appears to be spitting out a dust jet that is twirling like a sprinkler in space.*
This means that the small nucleus of the comet may be spinning, according to a statement from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Maryland, which runs the science program connected with Hubble.
SEE ALSO: Water-ice discovered on comet reveals clues about its evolution (http://mashable.com/2016/01/14/ice-water-comet-evolution/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Comets are balls of ice and rock that are thought to be leftovers from the dawn of the solar system. They consist of icy bits of material that didn't get incorporated into planets billions of years ago when our cosmic neighborhood formed. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/hubble-telescope-comet-sprinkler/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A newly-released ****** of photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show never-before-seen details of a comet as it passed by Earth on April 4.*
The comet, named*252P/LINEAR, appears to be spitting out a dust jet that is twirling like a sprinkler in space.*
This means that the small nucleus of the comet may be spinning, according to a statement from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Maryland, which runs the science program connected with Hubble.
SEE ALSO: Water-ice discovered on comet reveals clues about its evolution (http://mashable.com/2016/01/14/ice-water-comet-evolution/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Comets are balls of ice and rock that are thought to be leftovers from the dawn of the solar system. They consist of icy bits of material that didn't get incorporated into planets billions of years ago when our cosmic neighborhood formed. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/hubble-telescope-comet-sprinkler/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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