NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirms largest comet nucleus ever observed


The comet is still too far away for its solid nucleus to be visually resolved by Hubble, so astronomers had to make a computer model of the surrounding coma and adjust it to fit Hubble's images. Then, the coma was subtracted, leaving behind the starlike nucleus.

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