A weird comet is travelling through space with a dust blob it made

Comet 108P/Ciffreo was noticed in 1985 hurtling via house alongside an odd blob of mud, and now astronomers have lastly discovered the place the blob got here from

By Leah Crane

Astronomers in 1985 noticed a peculiar comet that appeared to have an enormous blob of mud travelling with it via house, and now we have now lastly discovered what it’s. Understanding uncommon objects like this might assist us find out about how comets evolve and ultimately crumble.

Yoonyoung Kim on the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany and her colleagues examined the comet, known as Comet 108P/Ciffreo, utilizing the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain and the Hubble Space Telescope …