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Gemini North telescope image of the comet C/2019 Q4 (Comet Borisov) obtained on the night of November 11-12, 2019. The image was captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) using three filters in optical light. Because the comet’s motion is relatively rapid, the three images were combined by averaging the position of the comet in the images to produce the single color composite shown here. Credit: NSF OIR Lab/Gemini Observatory/AURA