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July 7, 1994 12:00 AM (EDT)

News Release Number: STScI-1994-26

Photo Illustration of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 & Planet Jupiter

This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and cornet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9, as imaged by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2), aboard. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST).


Credit: H.A. Weaver, T.E. Smith (Space Telescope Science Institute) and J.T. Trauger, R.W. Evans (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and NASA