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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope accidentally captured Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking into at least four fragments in November 2025 — the earliest observation of a comet's disintegration ever recorded by the telescope. The chemically unusual, carbon-depleted comet is now exiting the solar system permanently, while the peer-reviewed findings published in Icarus open new windows into primordial solar system composition and the poorly understood physics of why long-period comets fragment more readily than their short-period counterparts.