Tech Explorist
On Dec. 13, the brightest comet 46P/Wirtanen passed 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Earth.
On this event, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured it from multiple angles.
In this visible light image, the comet’s nucleus is covered up in the center of a fuzzy glow from the comet’s coma.
The coma is a cloud of gas and dust that the comet has catapulted amid its go through the internal solar system because of warming from the Sun.
The internal part of a comet’s coma is typically not available from Earth.
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