Original file(3,000 × 2,400 pixels, file size: 499 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.

Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Description Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) that disintegrated around July 23, 2000.
Date
Source Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces of Comet Linear: STScI-2000-27
Author Hubble Space Telescope
Credit: NASA, University of Hawaii, H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University)


Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org.
For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

5 August 2000

image/jpeg

0f61273f34a55037d969963e2e0f409000851446

510,830 byte

2,400 pixel

3,000 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:56, 13 December 2004Thumbnail for version as of 16:56, 13 December 20043,000 × 2,400 (499 KB)AngeloleitholdComet Linear {{PD-USGov-NASA}}

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file: