Hubble Sees Comet Siding Spring (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Sees Comet Siding Spring

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The images above show -- before and after filtering -- comet C/2013 A1, also known as Siding Spring, as captured by Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

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NASA, European Space Agency, and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute)

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