US EditionNASA’s Hubble Accidentally Caught a Comet Breaking Apart in Real Time
Hubble observed comet C/2025 K1 fragment into four pieces shortly after perihelion, offering rare insights into comet disintegration and composition, researchers said.
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For years, scientists tried in vain to observe this moment. Then it just happened – and Hubble happened to look closely.
Scientists Startled by What Happens When They Point Hubble at Comet
Lady Fortune was on astronomers’ side when they pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a comet drifting through our solar system. Just as they began observing the comet, it started breaking apart, providing an extraordinary chance to probe how these icy bodies evolve. “Sometimes the best science happens by accident,” John Noonan, a research physicist at Auburn University in Alabama, and coauthor of a new study published in the journal Icarus deta…
NASA’s Hubble accidentally caught a comet breaking apart in real time
In an incredibly lucky cosmic accident, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a comet breaking apart in real time—something astronomers have long tried and failed to observe. The comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), wasn’t even the original target, but when researchers pivoted to it, they unknowingly caught it mid-disintegration into multiple pieces.
The Hubble Space Telescope once again surprised the scientific community to grasp, for the first time with this level of detail, the fragmentation of a comet almost at the time it happened. The protagonist...
“Hubble Observes the Fragmentation of Comet C/2025 K1” – Meson Stars
“A Rare Observation of Cometary Breakup in Real Time” “Unexpected Hubble Data Reveals Comet Disintegration” https://youtube.com/watch?=vol9JPp9rxEc The Unexpected Breakup of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) In a rare and scientifically valuable observation, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the fragmentation of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) in real time. What makes this event particularly remarkable is not only the process itself, but…
This is called a "happy" space accident. In November 2025, when he was initially to point his sensors to a completely different subject, the Hubble Space Telescope was found at the first lodges of a rare spectacle: the brutal disintegration of the comet C/225 K1 (ATLAS). Coming from the ice-covered borders of the Oort cloud, this traveler is [...]
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