Hubble Takes a Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

Hubble Takes a Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

This is the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope's most recent annual grand tour of the outer Solar System. This is the realm of the giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to the Sun’s warmth, these far-flung worlds are mostly composed of chilly gaseous soups of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane around a packed, intensely hot, compact core.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: Nov. 18, 2021

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