In the fall of 2023, Unistellar observers joined forces with the Association Française d’Astronomie (AFA) to take another close look at a familiar visitor: Comet 103P/Hartley 2. This tiny but famously ...

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Comet Hartley 2 became the fifth cometary target of close-up photography early Thursday and the smallest and most interesting one visited so far, NASA scientists said. Scientists said images of ...

LOS ANGELES (MCT) — Thursday morning at 7:01 am, a JPL probe will sweep within 434 miles of comet Hartley 2 and take its picture, only the fifth time a spacecraft will have imaged a comet up close.