NASA’s Hubble captures comet breaking apart in real time

The images taken on November 8, 9, and 10, 2025. PIC COURTESY/NASA

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed a comet breaking apart in real time. The telescope captured three 20-second exposures taken on November 8, 9, and 10, 2025.

The odds of Hubble catching such an event at exactly the right moment are incredibly small. The comet, officially named C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was not even the original target of the observation campaign.

Researchers had hoped for years to capture a comet fragmenting with Hubble and have also submitted multiple proposals aimed at observing such an event.

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