The Science Behind the Meteor That Lit Up the North American Sky - 1
Comet C/2001 Q4, also known as NEAT, emits a blue-and-purple glow as it moves through the cosmos in...
Foto de T. Rector University of Alaska Anchorage, Z. Levay and L. Frattare Space Telescope Science Institute, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, National Science Foundation
Of the thousands of known comets in the solar system, Halley's comet is one of some 200 that are...
Foto de James Balog
This image shows ejected material that was propelled into space when NASA's Deep Impact probe...
Foto de NASA, JPL Cal-tech, umd
Seen here in a 2004 composite image, the intensely active surface of comet Wild 2 ejects dust and...
Foto de NASA, JPL
The Hale-Bopp comet shines against a stellar backdrop in the constellation Sagittarius in this...
Foto de H. A. Weaver Applied Research Corp., P. D. Feldman The Johns Hopkins University, NASA
The round shape of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,...
Foto de NASA, Esa, J. Parker Southwest Research Institute, P. Thomas Cornell University, L. McFadden University of Maryland, College Park, M. Mutchler and Z. Levay STScI
One of the youngest and best-preserved impact craters on Earth, Meteor Crater formed about 50,000...
Foto de D. Roddy U.S. Geological Survey, Lunar and Planetary Institute
This enlargement of a 1993 Hubble Space Telescope image shows the brightest nuclei in a string of...
Foto de Dr. H. A. Weaver and Mr. T. E. Smith, Stsci, NASA
Fragments of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck Jupiter in July 1994, leaving the impacts visible in...
Foto de Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team
Light reflects from the nucleus of the Tempel 1 comet in this Hubble Space Telescope image taken in...
Foto de NASA, Esa, P. Feldman Johns Hopkins University and H. Weaver Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
A new jet of dust streams from the icy nucleus of the Tempel 1 comet, caught in this Hubble Space...
Foto de NASA, Esa, P. Feldman Johns Hopkins University and H. Weaver Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory