Comet 2I/Borisov as Imaged by Hubble (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Comet 2I/Borisov as Imaged by Hubble

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Comet 2I/Borisov is only the second interstellar object known to have passed through the solar system. These two images, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, capture the comet appearing near a background galaxy (left) and soon after its closest approach to the Sun (right).

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NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA)

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