Hubble snaps glorious close-up of everyone’s favorite comet Neowise – CNET

The Hubble view of Neowise is inset into a ground-based view of the comet photographed by Zoltan G. Levay.
NASA, ESA, STScI, Q. Zhang (Caltech) and Z. Levay
Comet Neowise may be out of sight of those of us on Earth, but it didn’t escape the far-seeing eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA and ESA’s telescope snapped a lovely portrait of the comet on Aug. 8. 
“This is the first time Hubble has photographed a comet of this brightness at such resolution after this close of a pass by the sun,”…

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