Telescope image shows remains of comet ATLAS.
Many skywatchers had high hope that comet ATLAS would light up the light sky this spring, instead, the icy objects crumbled inti pieces. An astronomer at the University of Maryland, ye Quanzhi, take a look at comet ATLAS on Monday, April 20 using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, he caught a stunning image of its fragment. Ye hopes those mini-comets will help scientists understand what caused ATLAS to fall apart. in particular, astronomers rely on the distance between fragments to reconstruct events, since that distance increase as more time passes since a specific fracture. In the Hubble image, ye said he believes two of those fragments have broken down even more, yielding the two pairs of bright spot on the right which represents the four largest fragments at the time. Also, the two clouds of brightness on the left may represents where older fragments hach broken up into smaller pieces before beginning the observation, which lasted for one of hubble