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Hubble Discovers "Accidentally" that Comet C/2025 K1 (Atlas) Is Fragmenting: "It Had Never Happened Before"

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"Sometimes, the best scientific discoveries happen by accident." This is the case with comet C/2025 K1, which unexpectedly fragmented before the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing its nucleus and providing information about the early solar system. Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was observed by Hubble just 8 days after it began to fragment following its closest approach to the Sun. Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, Dennis Bodewits (AU); Image process…
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"Sometimes, the best scientific discoveries happen by accident." This is the case with comet C/2025 K1, which unexpectedly fragmented before the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing its nucleus and providing information about the early solar system. Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was observed by Hubble just 8 days after it began to fragment following its closest approach to the Sun. Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, Dennis Bodewits (AU); Image process…

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meteored.cl broke the news in on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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