Comet 332P (Jan. 27, 2016)

This image of Comet 332P was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 on Jan. 27, 2016.

About the colours

Several images of Comet 332P were made by HST's WFC3/UVIS instrument on three consecutive days with a single filter, F350LP. The exposures from each day were combined into a single image. Color was added to the combined grayscale images using a color mapping.

About the data

Data were provided through HST proposal 14474 : D. Jewitt (UCLA), M. Mutchler (STScI), H. Weaver (JHU/APL), J. Agarwal (MPI), M.-T. Hui (UCLA), M. Ishiguro (Seoul National Univ.), J. Li (UCLA), and J. Kleyna, K. Meech, R. Wainscoat, and R. Weryk (Univ. Hawaii).