Death of a comet: Hubble spies a 4.5 billion-year-old ball of ice as it slowly breaks

Astronomers at the University of California Los Angeles used Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope to watch as debris as it flew off a comet 67 million miles from Earth at just a couple of miles per hour. They believe an increase in sunlight led to chunks of ice up to 200 feet across being dislodged from the comet's surface and spinning off into space. The scientists say it provides a new insight into how comets can disintegrate. They calculate that within 150 years the comet will have completely fallen apart. | Daily Mail via IFTTT

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