Asteriod Gault (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Asteriod Gault

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Hubble Space Telescope captured this striking image of asteroid (6478) Gault, showing two narrow, comet-like tails of dusty debris. Each tail represents an episode in which the asteroid gently shed its material -- key evidence that Gault is beginning to come apart.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawai'i), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory)

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