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The hydrogen cloud around Comet LINEAR

Copyright: SOHO/SWAN (ESA & NASA) & J.T.T. Mdkinen et al.

as observed by the SWAN instrument on SOHO on 26 June 2000, almost a month before the comet disintegrated. The field of view is 21 million kilometres wide.
Credit: SOHO/SWAN (ESA & NASA) & J.T.T. Mdkinen et al.


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