# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BvpnpAgDS5O
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11734663-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/c8db38b9fa.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-03-30T23:07:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Check yourself before you wreck yourself! 
This NASAHubble image reveals the gradual self-destruction of an asteroid, whose ejected dusty material has formed two comet-like tails. The longer tail stretches more than 500,000 miles and is roughly 3,000 miles wide. The shorter tail is about a quarter as long. The streamers will eventually disperse into space.

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

#SelfDestruction #NASA #HubbleSpaceTelescope

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