Shoemaker-Levy 9 - Hubble Space Telescope
Panoramic mosaic of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken 17 May 1994
Last panoramic mosaic of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL-9)
taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The comet had broken
into 21 fragments, all of which impacted Jupiter in
mid-July of 1994. This image was taken on 17 May 1994
through the red filter of the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2.
At this time, the comet was about 660 million km from Earth.
The comet fragments stretch across 1.1 million km of space.
(HST, STScI-PR94-26d)
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