File:Comet 46P Wirtanen (45816297104).jpg

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed comet 46P/Wirtanen on 13 December 2018 when the comet was 12 million kilometers from Earth. In the image, the comet’s nucleus is hidden 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 ejected during its pass through the inner Solar System due to heating from the Sun.

More information: <a href="https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1863a/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1863a/</a>

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NASA, ESA, and D. Bodewits (Auburn University) and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute)
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