Comet Levy
February 5, 2005
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed the inner core surrounding the icy nucleus of Comet Levy more clearly than can be done with ground-based telescopes
The image was taken September 27th with the HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera, when the comet was at a distance of about 160,000,000 kilometers (100,000,000 miles) from Earth.
The image was taken September 27th with the HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera, when the comet was at a distance of about 160,000,000 kilometers (100,000,000 miles) from Earth.
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Hubble Space Telescope, Astronomy, Spacecraft, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Technology Internet, Wide Field and Planetary Camera, Space, Lost comet, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Comet
