esahubble_opo0642b August 31st, 2006
Credit: NASA, ESA, L. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison), H. Hammel (Space Science Institute), and K. Rages (SETI)
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image is a never-before-seen astronomical alignment of a moon traversing the face of Uranus, and its accompanying shadow. The white dot near the center of Uranus blue-green disk is the icy moon Ariel.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0642b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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