Archive · 28 Jul 2025
Hubble Captures Image of Breaking Asteroid Gault
Imagine a space rock, like a tiny planet, called Gault.
The Hubble Space Telescope, a powerful eye in space, took a picture of it.
Gault has two tails, like a comet!
This means the rock is slowly breaking up into smaller pieces.
Gault lives in the space between Mars and Jupiter, far away from Earth.
The picture also shows lots of bright stars behind it.
Hubble Telescope captured an image of asteroid 6478 Gault.
Asteroid 6478 Gault has two tails, resembling a comet.
These tails indicate the asteroid is slowly breaking apart.
The asteroid is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
The bright lines around the asteroid are background stars.
- Who
- The Hubble Space Telescope.
- What
- The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of asteroid 6478 Gault.
- When
- The images were recently captured.
- Where
- The asteroid is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
- Why
- To observe and study asteroids like 6478 Gault.
- Object
- Asteroid 6478 Gault
- Tails
- Two
- Tails' Indication
- Asteroid breaking apart
- Location
- Between Mars and Jupiter
- Image Source
- NASA, ESA, and others