Friday, May 12, 2006
Spitzer Space Telescope looks at 73P
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)This amazing image is the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope's image of Comet 73P. The fragments of the comet stand out quite clearly in this infrared image, taken over 21 hours. The the line bridging the fragments is the dust trail of the comet, invisible in normal light, but readily aparent in infrared. Read the media relase here, or download medium or high (4.3Mb) TIFF images.
Astronomy Picture of the Day has yet another image of 73P-C and the Ring Nebula.
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 12:23 am 
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