Comet Wirtanen (courtesy ESO)
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The faint, moving image of the nucleus of Comet Wirtanen (in the circles), as observed by the 8.2-m VLT KUEYEN telescope (formerly UT2) and the VLT Test Camera on 17 May 1999, during the commissioning phase. Photograph courtesy ESO.
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Last Update: 1 September 2019