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Location of Kuiper Belt Comets

Location of Kuiper Belt Comets
  • Release Date
    June 14, 1995
  • Science Release
    Hubble Identifies a Long-Sought Population of Comets Beyond Neptune
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    Science Release Credit: A. Cochran (University of Texas) and NASA

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Two Images of Faint Kuiper Belt Object at the Edge of the Solar System

Two Images of Faint Kuiper Belt Object at the Edge of the Solar System

This is sample data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope that illustrates the detection of comets in the Kuiper Belt, a region of space beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune. This pair of images, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), shows one of the candidate...

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Mar 28, 2025
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