NSSDCA Photo Gallery Comets

• C/Hale-Bopp
• P/Halley
• C/Hyakutake
• P/Kohoutek
• P/Shoemaker-Levy 9

C/Hale-Bopp

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	Comet C/Hale-Bopp as taken with the Hubble Space Telescope.	Caption	STScI-PRC95-41, 95-HC-607	52K

P/Halley

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	Comet P/Halley as taken with the Halley Multicolor Camera on the ESA mission Giotto.			68K
	Comet P/Halley as taken March 8, 1986 by W. Liller, Easter Island, part of the International Halley Watch (IHW) Large Scale Phenomena Network.		LSPN-1725	56K	Hi-res

C/Hyakutake

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	Comet C/Hyakutake as taken with the Hubble Space Telescope when the comet passed at a distance of 9.3 million miles (14.9 million km) from Earth (03/25/96).	Caption	STScI-PRC96-14	44K	Hi-res

P/Kohoutek

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	Photograph taken of Comet P/Kohoutek from Skylab. (12/21/73)		S73-38731	10K

P/Shoemaker-Levy 9

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	Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 as taken with the Wide-Field/Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope.			21K	Hi-res
	Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 as taken with the Wide-Field/Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. (17 May 1994)	Caption	STScI-PR94-26c	8.9K	Hi-res

For further information:

• About the Hubble Space Telescope
• About the Giotto mission
• About Skylab

• Shoemaker-Levy 9 page
• Hale-Bopp page

• Comet Fact Sheet
• Frequently Asked Questions about comets
• NSSDCA's Comet page

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