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Comet 2I/Borisov


Date: 16 October 2019
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: Comet 2I/Borisov
Copyright: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), CC BY 4.0

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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Last Update: 16 October 2019
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