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Imagen de brújula y escala del cometa ISON

CreditsNASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)

Fecha
Jan 1, 2013
Misión
Hubble Space Telescope
ID de archivo
hubblesite-images-2013-14-3173-image
Por

Credits

NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)

Detalles de la imagen

About The Object
Object NameComet ISON
Object DescriptionComet
DistanceAt the time of the Hubble observation, the comet was 4.15 astronomical units (386 million miles) from the Sun. The comet was 4.24 astronomical units (394 million miles) from Earth.
About The Data
Data DescriptionThe image was created from Hubble data from proposal J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute), P. Lamy (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), H. Weaver (JHU/APL), M. A'Hearn and M. Kelley (University of Maryland), M. Knight (Lowell Observatory), T. Farnham (University of Maryland), and I. Toth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences).
InstrumentHST>WFC3/UVIS
Exposure DatesApril 10, 2013
FiltersF606W (V)
About The Image
Color InfoThis image was originally black and white and recorded only overall brightness. These brightness values were translated into a range of bluish hues. Such color "maps" can be useful in helping to distinguish subtly varying brightness in an image.

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