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Posted on 08/07/2025 5:51:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is currently passing through our Solar System.
Observations by Hubble have enabled astronomers to better estimate the size of the comet's nucleus, which is made of dust and ice.
Hubble managed to capture a dust plume being ejected by the comet, as well as a glimpse of a dust tail streaming away from its nucleus.
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My calculator cannot handle all the zeroes.
It is more like 13 million years.
Check your math. 2.5 million LIGHT YEARS is 1.4696563 x 1019 miles. That's 14,696,563,000,000,000,000 miles or just shy of a million times farther than the 15 trillion miles you suggested.
It would take a craft travelling 130,000 MPH just under 13 MILLION years to go that distance (12,905,306 years).
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