ESA/Hubble heic2015: Hubble Snaps Close-Up of Comet NEOWISE. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky’s latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun. The new images of the comet were taken on 8 ...

ESA/Hubble News
21 August 2020

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky’s latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun. The new images of the comet were taken on 8 August and feature the visitor’s coma, the fine shell that surrounds its nucleus, and its dusty output.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic2015/

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ESA/Hubble Information Centre
21 August 2020




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