Comet 2I/Borisov (IMAGE)

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Comet 2I/Borisov

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On 12 October 2019, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed Comet 2I/Borisov at a distance of approximately 420 million kilometres from Earth. The comet is believed to have arrived here from another planetary system elsewhere in our galaxy.

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NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA)

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