Hubble captures Deep Impact's collision with a comet (view 64 minutes after impact)

esahubble_heic0509d July 4th, 2005

Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Feldman (Johns Hopkins University), and H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)

The Hubble telescope continued to monitor the comet, snapping another image an hour after the encounter. In this photo, the dust ejected during the impact is expanding outward in the shape of a fan. The debris extends about 720 kilometres from the nucleus.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0509d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Comet 9P • Tempel 1
Subject - Solar System: Interplanetary Body > Comet

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	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (ACS)	Optical (V)	606.0 nm

ID: heic0509d
Subject Category: A.2.2
Subject Name: Comet 9P, Tempel 1
Credits: NASA, ESA, P. Feldman (Johns Hopkins University), and H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)

Release Date: 2005-07-04T15:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0509d/

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Facility: Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: ACS
Color Assignment: Grayscale

Band: Optical
Bandpass: V
Central Wavelength: 606

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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: heic0509d

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0509d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2005-07-07T09:14:33-04:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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