Our #HubbleTopImage features the famous comet 3I/ATLAS! ☄️⁠ ⁠ This photo of the interstellar comet, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope last year, captures it 365 million kilometres from Earth. Hubble’s observations revealed the teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus 🧊 and also allowed astronomers to estimate its size more accurately.⁠ ⁠ Because Hubble was tracking the comet moving along a hyperbolic trajectory, the stationary background stars are streaked in the exposure.⁠ ⁠ For more information check the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📷 NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI)⁠ ⁠ #ESA #Hubble