Thursday, May 12, 2016

Newscenter Update: Hubble Catches Views of a Jet Rotating with Comet 252P/LINEAR

May 12, 2016
Comet 252P/LINEAR (April 4, 2016)
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Hubble Catches Views of a Jet Rotating with Comet 252P/LINEAR

For thousands of years, humans have recorded sightings of mysterious comets sweeping across the nighttime skies. These celestial wanderers, "snowballs" of dust and ice, are swift-moving visitors from the cold depths of space. Some of them periodically visit the inner solar system during their journeys around the sun.

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