Jet rotating with comet 252P LINEAR, HST image
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images showing comet 252P/LINEAR passing by Earth on the 4th of April 2016. The images show a jet of dust ejected from the comet's icy nucleus and illuminated by sunlight. Across the images, the jet is also seen changing direction: evidence that the comet's nucleus is rotating. Images captured by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3., Photo by NASA, ESA, and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute)/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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