Solar System
Hubble Observation of P/2013 R3 – December 13, 2013
March 6, 2014 · 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 Hubble data are from proposal 13612 : D. Jewitt (University of California, Los Angeles), H. Weaver (JHU/APL), J. Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research), S. Larson (University of Arizona), and M. Mutchler (STScI).
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