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    • Title ESO FORS2 image of comet before impact
    • Released 05/07/2005 1:00 pm
    • Copyright ESO
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      The FORS2 multi-mode instrument on Antu, one of the 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes of the VLT array, La Silla Paranal Observatory, took this stunning image showing the comet before impact.


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