The Most Amazing Space Photos This Week!

The Most Amazing Space Photos This Week!
By Doris Elin Salazar 11 hours ago Spaceflight

Gault and Its Two Tails



(Image: © NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory))

The two long tails of material streaming from (6478) Gault, a 2.5-mile-wide (4 kilometers) rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, were visible to researchers thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and a variety of ground-based instruments in Hawaii, Spain and India. Gault completes one rotation every two hours, researchers reported in a recent study. The two tails are debris streams apparently generated by two separate dust releases around Oct. 28 and Dec. 30 of last year.

Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory)

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