Hubble Witnesses Comet Crash

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the dramatic effects of the collision that occurred early July 4, Eastern time, between an 820-pound projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1. This sequence of images shows the comet before and after the impact. The visible-light images were taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys' High Resolution Camera.

CREDIT: NASA/ESA/P. Feldman (Johns Hopkins University) and H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)

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