Comet Siding Spring (October 19, 2014)

The comet image shown here is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 exposures taken between October 18, 8:06 a.m. EDT and October 19, 11:17 p.m. EDT.

About the data

The image was created from Hubble data from the following proposals: 13936 : PI: Z. Levay and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and 13675 : PI: J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute), T. Farnham and M. Kelley (University of Maryland), N. Samarasinha (Planetary Science Institute), D. Bodewits and M. A'Hearn (University of Maryland), C. Lisse (JHU/APL), W. Delamere (Delamere Support Services), and M. Mutchler (STScI).