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Hubble Space Telescope shows that 3I/ATLAS is a comet with a small nucleus, between 0.32 and 5.6 kilometers in diameter, surrounded by a much larger cloud of dust, it also shows diffuse emission ahead of its motion towards the Sun rather than a trailing tail


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