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This is a composite photo, assembled from separate images of Jupiter and comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, as imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1994.

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades 5-8

Subject

Space Science, Telescopes, Astronomy

Type

Lesson Plans / Activities

Using the Internet, students may retrieve Hubble Space Telescope images as well as pictures from other satellite observatories. The objects in the images can be examined by unaided visual inspection and compared to pictures taken of the same objects by ground-based observatories.
Space-Based Astronomy on the Internet Activity [222KB PDF file]
This activity is part of the Space-Based Astronomy Educator Guide.