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

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Description	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
Source	http://www.eso.org/gallery/v/ESOPIA/SolarSystem/phot-07a-01-hires.jpg.html
Author	ESO
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