Comet K2 ‘The Record-Breaker’ – farthest active inbound comet ever seen

Comet K2 ‘The Record-Breaker’ – farthest active inbound comet ever seen

Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the farthest active inbound comet ever seen, at a whopping distance of 2.4 billion km (1.5 billion miles) from the Sun (beyond Saturn's orbit). The comet is record-breaking because it is already becoming active under the…