The reasons for the collapse of the comet, as scientists admit is unclear.
Hubble has transmitted to Earth unique pictures of a comet 332P/ikeya-Murakami, disintegrated into pieces in the eyes of scientists, according to the website mission.
Comet 4.5 billion years was in the Kuiper belt, but after the beginning of a gradual approximation to the Sun.
The collapse of comet, as scientists assume, occurred in October or November of this year, and most of the fragments 332P/ikeya-Murakami, according to the team Julitta, was ejected from the comet’s nucleus simultaneously, which speaks of a certain catastrophic event.
On the other hand, there is the possibility that the comet gradually “unwound” and the pieces broke away from her one by one, which may explain the unusually great length of its tail.
The reason for this promotion and the collapse of the comet, as scientists admit is unclear.
Representatives of the space Observatory SOHO earlier recorded impressive moment, as the Sun destroyed the approaching comet.
