NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirms largest comet nucleus ever observed [TechSpot]

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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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