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Hubble Captured Rare Images Of A Comet's Close Encounter With Earth
Even though it was more than 3 million miles away from Earth when it zipped past us back in March, 252P/LINEAR made one of the closest encounters of any comet in recorded history. And it has the distinction of being the closest celestial object - other than the moon - ever observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Rare Comet 'Twins' To Zip Past Earth, Astronomers Excited
Astronomers the world over kept their high-end telescopes set on the sky on Monday to see the closest ever flyby of two comets that may have more in common than their intriguingly similar orbits - they may be twins of a sort.
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Hubble Captured Rare Images Of A Comet's Close Encounter With Earth
Even though it was more than 3 million miles away from Earth when it zipped past us back in March, 252P/LINEAR made one of the closest encounters of any comet in recorded history. And it has the distinction of being the closest celestial object - other than the moon - ever observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Rare Comet 'Twins' To Zip Past Earth, Astronomers Excited
Astronomers the world over kept their high-end telescopes set on the sky on Monday to see the closest ever flyby of two comets that may have more in common than their intriguingly similar orbits - they may be twins of a sort.
