Solar System
Comet-like Asteroid P/2010 A2 by HST
February 2, 2010 · NASA
About the colours
This 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.
About the data
The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 12053 : D. Jewitt (UCLA), H. Weaver (JPL/APL), M. Drahus (UCLA), and M. Mutchler (STScI).
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