NASA has released images from the Hubble Space Telescope showing an asteroid that is tearing itself apart. Located 214 million mi (344 million km) from the Sun, the 2.5-mi (four-km) wide asteroid (6478) Gault is spinning so fast that it is self-destructing and throwing off debris tails half a million mi (800,000 km) long.
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