Hubble Close-Up of Bright Nucleus in Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9

Esahubble_opo9322c_1024

esahubble_opo9322c October 18th, 1993

Credit: Dr. H. A. Weaver and Mr. T. E. Smith, STScI NASA/ESA

This is an enlargement of a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the "brightest nucleus" in a string of approximately 20 objects that comprise comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. The comet is hurtling toward a July I994 collision with the giant planet Jupiter. Hubble's high resolution shows that this bright region is actually a group of at least four separate pieces. The HST images allow for the best separation of the individual nuclei and their surrounding halo of dust (comae), which results in a better estimate of the nuclear sizes.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9322c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Comet

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Magenta Hubble (WFPC1) Optical -
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ID
opo9322c
Subject Category
A.2.2  
Subject Name
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Credits
Dr. H. A. Weaver and Mr. T. E. Smith, STScI NASA/ESA
Release Date
1993-10-18T05:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9322c/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC1
Color Assignment
Magenta
Band
Optical
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
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Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9322c
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:40:01+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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