Reverse-Spinning Comet 41P May Self-Destruct Within Decades

Since ancient times, comets have served as messengers from the solar system's earliest moments — frozen archives of creation drifting through the dark. Now, a UCLA researcher has documented something unprecedented: a comet spinning backward, driven to self-destruction not by collision or catastrophe, but by the quiet, relentless force of its own evaporating gases. Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák, a one-kilometer wanderer from the Kuiper Belt, may fragment within decades — a lifespan compressed from millennia into a single human generation — inviting us to reconsider how these ancient travele