Huge Incoming Comet Spotted by Hubble Beyond Saturn's Orbit (+Video)
A huge comet has been journeying for millions of years toward the heart of our planetary system.
Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the farthest active inbound comet ever seen, at a whopping distance of 1.5 billion miles from the Sun (beyond Saturn’s orbit).
Slightly warmed by the remote Sun, it has already begun to develop an 80,000-mile-wide fuzzy cloud of dust, called a coma, enveloping a solid nucleus of frozen gas and dust. These observations represent the earliest signs of activity ever seen from a comet entering the solar system’s planetary zone for the first time.
The comet, called C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) or “K2″, has been travelling for millions of years from its home in the frigid outer reaches of the solar system, where the temperature is about minus 440 degrees Fahrenheit. The comet’s orbit indicates that it came from the Oort Cloud, a spherical region almost a light-year in diameter and thought to contain hundreds of billions of comets.
K2 was discovered in May 2017 by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) in Hawaii, a survey project of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program. Astronomers used Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 at the end of June to take a closer look at the icy visitor.
Hubble’s sharp “eye” revealed the extent of the coma and also helped Jewitt estimate the size of the nucleus — less than 12 miles across — though the tenuous coma is 10 Earth diameters across.
This vast coma must have formed when the comet was even farther away from the Sun. K2 had a coma already at 2 billion miles from the Sun, when it was between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. It was already active and it has been continuously active coming in. As it approaches the Sun, it’s getting warmer and warmer, and the activity is ramping up according to researchers.
Astronomers will have plenty of time to conduct detailed studies of K2. For the next five years, the comet will continue its journey into the inner solar system before it reaches its closest approach to the Sun in 2022 just beyond Mars’ orbit.
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Read more here: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-40
The team’s results appeared in the September 28 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa88b4/meta
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hvi/uploads/science_paper/file_attachment/262/Jewitt_Comet_K2_paper_9-26-17.pdf
Clips, images credit: NASA/HUBBLE, ESA & ESO
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