Hubble's Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

Hubble's Grand Tour of The Outer Solar System

This is the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope's most recent 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.

Note: The planets are not shown to scale in this image.

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

Release Date: Nov. 18, 2021

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