{"id":431542,"date":"2022-04-13T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nasas-hubble-telescope-discovers-largest-ever-comet-nucleus-at-80-miles-wide\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:07:08","slug":"nasas-hubble-telescope-discovers-largest-ever-comet-nucleus-at-80-miles-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasas-hubble-telescope-discovers-largest-ever-comet-nucleus-at-80-miles-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"#NASA\u2019s Hubble Telescope discovers largest-ever comet nucleus at 80-miles wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fe72869dc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fe72869dc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nasas-hubble-telescope-discovers-largest-ever-comet-nucleus-at-80-miles-wide\/#%E2%80%9CNASAs_Hubble_Telescope_discovers_largest-ever_comet_nucleus_at_80-miles_wide%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;NASA\u2019s Hubble Telescope discovers largest-ever comet nucleus at 80-miles wide&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNASAs_Hubble_Telescope_discovers_largest-ever_comet_nucleus_at_80-miles_wide%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;NASA\u2019s Hubble Telescope discovers largest-ever comet nucleus at 80-miles wide&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the largest comet on record \u2013 and it\u2019s coming this way.<\/p>\n<p>The space object C\/2014 UN271 was spotted last year and observations from the Hubble space telescope have this week confirmed the size of its nucleus.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the solid, central part of the comet composed of rock, dust and ice that is separate from its trailing tail.<\/p>\n<p>NASA said on Tuesday that the nucleus of C\/2014 is around 80 miles across, making it larger than the state of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about 50 times bigger than the heart of most known comets, with a mass estimated to be a staggering 500 trillion tons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe behemoth comet is barreling this way at 22,000 miles per hour from the edge of the solar system,\u201d NASA wrote on its\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2022\/hubble-confirms-largest-comet-nucleus-ever-seen\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut not to worry. It will never get closer than 1 billion miles away from the Sun, which is slightly farther than the distance of the planet Saturn. And that won\u2019t be until the year 2031.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hubble-reveals-80-mile-wide-mega-comet-04.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"This sequence shows how the nucleus of Comet C\/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) was isolated from a vast shell of dust and gas surrounding the solid icy nucleus. &#10;\" class=\"wp-image-21886508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hubble-reveals-80-mile-wide-mega-comet-04.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hubble-reveals-80-mile-wide-mega-comet-04.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hubble-reveals-80-mile-wide-mega-comet-04.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Comet C\/2014 UN271 was observed (left) last year and astronomers have now confirmed the size of its nucleus (right), the portion without the tail.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NASA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Comet C\/2014 was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein in archival images from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>It was first observed in November 2010 when it was three billion miles from the Sun \u2013 about as far from the star as Neptune.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, it has been intensively studied by ground and space-based telescopes as it makes its way to the inner Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>In the new analysis, a team led by David Jewitt, a professor of planetary <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, calculated the size of C\/2014 in the highest resolution yet.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0improved previous estimates using Hubble observations and modeling to isolate the nucleus from the comet\u2019s tail, or \u201ccoma\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fAEjtd7pqAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>At 85 miles in diameter, it beat out the previous record-holder, a 60-mile wide comet C\/2002 VQ94.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered in 2002 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe confirm that C\/2014 UN271 is the largest long-period comet ever detected,\u201d the team\u00a0writes in their new paper.<\/p>\n<p>Observations of the comet, which is thought to have emerged from a layer of icy objects surrounding our Sun called the Oort Cloud, could teach us a thing or two about the early universe.<\/p>\n<p>Oort Cloud objects are thought to be among the oldest in our star system but are notoriously difficult to examine because they\u2019re far away, lying well beyond Pluto.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hubble-reveals-80-mile-wide-mega-comet-03.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"At 85 miles in diameter, comet C\/2014 UN271 is the largest on record.\" class=\"wp-image-21886548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hubble-reveals-80-mile-wide-mega-comet-03.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hubble-reveals-80-mile-wide-mega-comet-03.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hubble-reveals-80-mile-wide-mega-comet-03.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>At 85 miles in diameter, comet C\/2014 UN271 is the largest on record.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NASA, ESA, Zena Levy (STScI)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis comet is literally the tip of the iceberg for many thousands of comets that are too faint to see in the more distant parts of the solar system,\u201d Professor Jewitt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve always suspected this comet had to be big because it is so bright at such a large distance. Now we confirm it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research was published\u00a0in\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/journal\/2041-8205\">The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/5114604\/nasa-80-mile-mega-comet-solar-system\/\">The Sun<\/a> and was reproduced here with permission. <\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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