Comet 108P/Ciffreo was spotted hurtling through space alongside a strange clump of dust in 1985.
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February 17, 2023
A Nordic optical telescope was used as part of the work Shutterstock/Ahmad Karl
In 1985 astronomers discovered a strange comet that looked like a giant clump of dust moving through space. Understanding such unusual objects could help us learn how comets evolve and eventually disintegrate.
Yoonyoung Kim and her colleagues at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, used the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain and the Hubble Space Telescope to study a comet called Comet 108P/Ciffreo…
