Picture Album: Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup

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Credit for Hubble Images: NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL), M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI)

Credit for the Ground-Based Image: G. Rhemann and M. Jager

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