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Shoemaker-Levy 9 — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Shoemaker-Levy 9

September 29, 1994 · ESA/Hubble

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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the P-Q complex, also called the "gang of four' region, of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. It was taken on 1 July 1993 with the Planetary Camera before the December 1993 HST servicing mission.