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Inner Region of Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2 , Hyakutake) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Inner Region of Comet Hyakutake

March 27, 1996 · ESA/Hubble · C/1996 B2 , Hyakutake

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These are Hubble Space Telescope images of comet Hyakutake (designated C/1996 B2), taken at 8:30 P.M.. EST on Monday, March 25 when the comet passed at a distance of only 9.3 million miles (about 15 million kilometres) from Earth.

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