Asteroid 6478 Gault
The asteroid 6478 Gault is seen with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, showing two narrow, comet-like tails of debris that tell us that the asteroid is slowly undergoing self-destruction. The bright streaks surrounding the asteroid are background stars. The Gault asteroid is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory)
About the Image
| Id: | heic1906a |
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| Type: | Planetary |
| Release date: | 28 March 2019, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1906 |
| Size: | 3911 x 2178 px |
About the Object
| Name: | 6478 Gault |
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| Type: | Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Asteroid |
| Category: | Solar System |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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| Optical Long Pass | 350 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |