In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watched is extraordinarily minuscule. The findings published Wednesday in the journal Icarus. The comet K1, whose full name is C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)—not to be confused with interstellar comet […]
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Astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, Comets, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, Small Bodies of the Solar System, The Solar System
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March 18, 2026
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