Close-up of Comet-like Asteroid P/2010 A2
Comet-like Asteroid P/2010 A2
100 million miles (160 million km) from Earth.
The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 12053: D. Jewitt (UCLA), H. Weaver (JPL/APL), M. Drahus (UCLA), and M. Mutchler (STScI).
F606W (V)
NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
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.
