Image caption: "The comet debris consists of a cluster of building-size chunks near the center of the image. They form a 3,000-mile-long trail, larger than the width of the continental U.S."
What am I not getting here? If the cluster in that image is 3K+ miles wide, then those are city sized dots, not building sized. I'm guessing the long tail is not actually in the image?
> What am I not getting here? If the cluster in that image is 3K+ miles wide, then those are city sized dots, not building sized. I'm guessing the long tail is not actually in the image?
It's probably two things. I think you're probably correct that the entirety of the tail is not in the image. Also, the size of the dots in the image probably reflects the resolution limit of Hubble, rather than the true angular size on the sky of the chunks.
What am I not getting here? If the cluster in that image is 3K+ miles wide, then those are city sized dots, not building sized. I'm guessing the long tail is not actually in the image?