Comet Lulin. Composite image of comet Lulin passing through the constellation Libra. The Lulin image was taken by the ultraviolet/optical telescope (blue and green areas) and the X-ray telescope (red areas) on NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite. Unusually Lulin orbits the Sun in a clockwise direction,unlike the planets and most other bodies. The background star field is a Digital Sky Survey image. Both images were taken on 28th January 2009 | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / NASA / BODEWITS ET AL / DSS (STSCI, AURUA) / UNIV. OF LEICESTER / SWIFT |
Taille de l’image : | 3165 px × 2835 px |
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