Astronomers caught a comet in the act of reversing its spin. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists noticed the never-before-seen behavior of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák (41P to its friends) after it passed around the sun in 2017.The observations represent a rare opportunity to see the evolution of a comet on a short timescale—generally, changes to a comet on this scale take centuries or more to come about. Comet 41P is believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt, out at the far reaches of the solar system, before it was flung inward at some point by Jupiter’s gravitational pull.Scientists think it has occupied its current orbit for about 1,500 years, but it appears to be losing mass at a rapid pace, something Jewitt suggests will lead to the comet’s self-destruction. What is your take on Comets existence ?
