View of Comet Siding Spring and Mars from Hubble

This image shows a star field with Mars as a small orange ball on the right and above it a bright comet in white with a tail.
October 24, 2014
CreditNASA, ESA, PSI, JHU/APL, STScI/AURA
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This composite NASA Hubble Space Telescope Image captures the positions of comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never-before-seen close passage of a comet by the Red Planet, which happened at 2:28 p.m. EDT October 19, 2014.

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