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Cometa 332P (26 de enero de 2016)

This image of Comet 332P was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 on Jan. 26, 2016. CreditsNASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA)

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Jan 1, 2016
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Hubble Space Telescope
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This image of Comet 332P was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 on Jan. 26, 2016.

Credits

NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA)

Detalles de la imagen

About The Object
Object NameComet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami
Object DescriptionShort-period comet
DistanceThe position of the comet changes as it and Earth travel on their orbits through the solar system. The comet was approximately 0.68 AU (67 million miles or 100 million kilometers) from Earth at the time of these observations.
About The Data
Data DescriptionData were provided through HST proposal : D. Jewitt (UCLA), M. Mutchler (STScI), H. Weaver (JHU/APL), J. Agarwal (MPI), M.-T. Hui (UCLA), M. Ishiguro (Seoul National Univ.), J. Li (UCLA), and J. Kleyna, K. Meech, R. Wainscoat, and R. Weryk (Univ. Hawaii).
InstrumentHST>WFC3/UVIS
Exposure DatesJanuary 26, 27, 28, 2016; Exposure Time: 100 minutes total exposure
FiltersF350LP 350nm (long pass)
About The Image
Color InfoSeveral images of Comet 332P were made by HST's WFC3/UVIS instrument on three consecutive days with a single filter, F350LP. The exposures from each day were combined into a single image. Color was added to the combined grayscale images using a color mapping.

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