Debris from most spectacular comet outburst may explain its perplexing behavior — and be visible in telescopes - Space.com

In 2007, the coma of comet 17P/Holmes briefly became larger than the sun.

Debris from the most spectacular comet outburst ever is visible from Earth this month and astronomers hope the observations might shed some light on the puzzling event that brightened up the sky in 2… [+3571 chars]

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