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File:ESO-Comet Hale-Bopp-Phot-07a-01-hires.jpg

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English: Comet Hale-Bopp , still active at a distance of nearly 2,000 million kilometres from the Sun. The photo is a colour composite of several exposures in different wavebands, obtained with the Wide-Field Imager (WFI) camera at the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Despite the very large distance from the Sun, the comet is still "active" - it continues to lose material, as demonstrated by the curved jet, and also possesses an enormous coma. The broad, fan-shaped extension in the tail direction (to the upper left) measures at least 2 million kilometres, cf.
Date 2001
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Author ESO
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File change date and time 10:48, 20 January 2009
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