Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Sites on Jupiter
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Jupiter Comet Impact
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Sites on Jupiter
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Jupiter Comet Impact
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Jupiter Comet Impact
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Overhead Projection of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter
This is a NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image of the impact sites of fragments "D" and "G" from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which collided with the giant planet Jupiter. The picture has been image processed to correct for the curvature of the disk of Jupiter, so that the spot appears flat, as if...
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
A Pair of Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image shows rich detail, previously only seen in neighboring star birth regions, in a pair of star clusters 166,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), in the southern constellation Doradus. The field of view is 130 light-years across...
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A 1993 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Region of Globular Star Cluster NGC 6397
Right A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a small region (1.4 light-years across) in the globular star cluster NGC 6397 shows far fewer stars than would be expected in faint red dwarf stars were abundant. HST resolves about 200 stars. The stellar density is so low that HST can literally...
Hubble's Search for Faint Field Stars in Galactic Halo
Left A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a randomly selected area of sky taken to search for faint red stars that might constitute dark matter in our Milky Way Galaxy. (Dark matter is material of an unknown type that makes up most of the mass of our galaxy). If the dark matter in our...
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Medium Deep Survey Galaxy Images - Individual.
Medium Deep Survey Galaxy Images - Individual
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Medium Deep Survey Galaxy Images - Individual.
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Medium Deep Survey Galaxy Images - Individual.
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Medium Deep Survey Galaxy Images - Individual.
Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Frame F: July 22, 1994
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact. This image was taken on July 22, 1994, 129.5 hours after Frame A.
Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Frame E: July 21, 1994
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact. This image was taken on July 21, 1994, 109.5 hours after Frame A.
Remote Galaxies Appear Distorted and Fragmented
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the central portion of a remote cluster of galaxies (CL 0939+4713) as it looked when the universe was two-thirds of its present age. Hubble's high resolution allows astronomers to study, for the first time, the shapes of galaxies as they were...
Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Frame E: July 21, 1994
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact. This image was taken on July 21, 1994, 90.4 hours after Frame A.
Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Frame C: July 19, 1994
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact. This image was taken on July 19th, 1994, 59.6 hours after Frame A.
Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Frame B: July 17, 1994
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact. This image was taken on July 17th, 1994, 19.5 hours after Frame A.
Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Frame A: July 16, 1994
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of Jupiter Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact. This image was taken at 5:33 p.m. EDT on July 16th, 1994.
Ultraviolet Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter
Ultraviolet image of Jupiter taken by the Wide Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows Jupiter's atmosphere at a wavelength of 2550 Angstroms after many impacts by fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The most recent impactor is fragment R which is below the center of...
Color Image of Multiple P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Impacts on Jupiter
Image of Jupiter with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Planetary Camera. Eight impact sights are visible. From left to right are the E/F complex (barley visible on the edge of the planet), the star shaped H site, the impact sites for tiny N, Q1, small Q2, and R, and on the far right limb...
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Sites on Jupiter
This image of the giant planet Jupiter, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the impact sites of fragments "D" and "G" from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The large feature was created by the impact of fragment "G" on July 18, 1994 at 3:28 a.m. EDT. It entered Jupiter's atmosphere from the...
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Leaves Impact Sites on Jupiter
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
One of Comet Shoemaker-Levy's Impact Sites on Jupiter
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Jupiter
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Panoramic Picture of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, taken on May 17, 1994, with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) in wide field mode. When the comet was observed, its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times...
The Great Orion Nebula
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion. This is one of the nearest regions of very recent star formation (300,000 years ago). The nebula is a giant gas cloud illuminated by the brightest of the young hot stars on the right side of the picture. Many of...
The Giant Planet Jupiter
An image of Jupiter taken on May 18, 1994, by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2) in wide field mode aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, when the giant planet was at a distance of 420 million miles (670 million km) from Earth. This "true-color" picture was assembled from separate...
HUBBLE PROBES THE GREAT ORION NEBULA
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. This is one of the nearest regions of very recent star formation (300,000 years ago). The nebula is a giant gas cloud illuminated by the brightest of the young hot...
A Protoplanetary Disk in the Orion Nebula
A Hubble Space Telescope view of a very young star (between 300,000 and a million years of age) surrounded by material left over from the star's formation. The cool, reddish star is about one fifth the mass of our Sun. The dark disk, seen in silhouette against the background of the Orion...
Close-up of "Proplyds" in the Orion Nebula
A Hubble Space Telescope view of a small portion of the Orion Nebula reveals five young stars. Four of the stars are surrounded by gas and dust trapped as the stars formed, but were left in orbit about the star. These are possibly protoplanetary disks, or "proplyds," that might evolve on to...
Hubble Measures Velocity of Gas Orbiting Black Hole
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of M87, NGC 4486.
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Spiral Gas Disk in Active Galaxy M87
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of M87, NGC 4486.
Mysterious Ring Structure around Supernova 1987A
This striking NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows three rings of glowing gas encircling the site of Supernova 1987A, a star which exploded in February 1987. Though all of the rings appear inclined to our view (so that they appear to intersect) they are probably in three different planes....
Supernova 1994I in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has returned the most detailed images ever of supernova 1994I which is in the "Whirlpool Galaxy" (M51) located 20 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The view in this picture encompasses the inner region of the galaxy's grand spiral disk,...
Pluto and Its Moon, Charon
This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon, Charon, as revealed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The image was taken by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on February 21, 1994 when the planet was 2.6 billion miles (4.4 billion kilometers) from...
Quasar Lies in Core of Colliding Galaxy
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of 1229+204.
47 Tucanae
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of 47 Tucanae, NGC 104. Post-Costar.
47 Tucanae
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of 47 Tucanae, NGC 104. Pre-Costar.
Eta Carinae: A Star On the Brink of Destruction
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2). The Camera was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope during the STS-61 Hubble Servicing Mission. The WFPC-2 optically corrects for...
Hubble Images of Star Cluster 47 Tucanae Before and After Astronauts Fixed Hubble's Flaw
These comparison images of the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC104) were taken with the COSTAR Corrected Faint Object Camera to show the improvement In performance when compared to images taken with the uncorrected camera. (left) The pre-COSTAR image was taken on 27 October 1993...
Nova Cygni 1992
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Nova Cygni 1992 after COSTAR.
GALAXY M100
An image of the grand design of spiral galaxy M100 obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resolves individual stars within the majestic spiral arms. (These stars typically appeared blurred together when viewed with ground-based telescopes.) Hubble has the ability to resolve individual...
Nova Cygni 1992
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Nova Cygni 1992 Before COSTAR.
Melnick 34 WFPC2 Image
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Melnick 34, 30 Doradus.
Melnick 34 WF/PC Image
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of Melnick 34, 30 Doradus.
Interacting Galaxies in a Cluster (NGC 5548)
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a previously unknown small group of galaxies estimated to be three billion light-years away.* They existed when the universe was only about 80% its present age. HST's high resolution reveals that many appear to be interacting and merging galaxies. In many...
Melnick 34 Ground-based Image
A Ground-based image of Melnick 34, 30 Doradus.
Spiral Galaxy M100
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of M100, NGC 4321.
Spiral Galaxy M100
A 1994 Hubble Space Telescope image of M100, NGC 4321.
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