NASA’s Swift Spies Comet Lulin
![A bright ball of white light is surrounded by a halo of purple and pink. The purple appears in a circle around the white light while the pink is offset to the left and below the central white ball. This is all on a black background dotted with blue stars.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/314214main_swift_lulin_detail.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
February 20, 2009
Credit | NASA/Swift/Univ. of Leicester/Bodewits et al. |
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Historical Date | February 20, 2009 |
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This image of Comet Lulin, taken Jan. 28, 2009, merges data acquired by NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (blue and green) and X-Ray Telescope (red). At the time of the observation, the comet was 99.5 million miles from Earth and 115.3 million miles from the Sun.
More information: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/lulin.html