Hubble Telescope Captures Comet Reversing Its Rotation for the First Time

For the primary time, astronomers have witnessed a comet totally reversing its rotation. NASA’s Hubble Area Telescope has recorded the behaviour of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák throughout its shut method to the Solar in 2017. Planetary scientist David Jewitt of UCLA studied the Hubble observations and revealed his findings in The Astronomical Journal on March 26. The comet, which is a small icy physique simply 0.6 miles vast, considerably slowed down and got here to a whole cease earlier than reversing its rotation.