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July 17, 1994 12:00 AM (EDT)

News Release Number: STScI-1994-29

Astronomers View Comet Impact with Jupiter

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Image: Hubble Astronomers Watch First Impact of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter

Hubble Astronomers Watch First Impact of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter

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When astronomer Heidi Hammel saw the first raw images downlinked from the telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, she exclaimed, "In my dreams we couldn't have gotten any better!" Shown in this image are the scientists who saw those images as the telescope transmitted them to Earth.

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