... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system . The observation, which is the astronomical equivalent to finding the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack, bolsters proof for a primordial comet reservoir just beyond Neptune , currently the farthest planet from the Sun . ... The comet-disk lies just beyond Neptune and might stretch 500 times farther from the Sun than Earth . ... Comet Introduction Kuiper Belt Objects . ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

Wide-angle telescopes for photometry and polarimetry in optical and infrared ranges . ... Investigation of the Earth’s atmosphere, comets, interplanetary and interstellar medium with brightness and linear polarization measurements of extended sources and sky background in optical and infrared spectral ranges. ... The devices are small diameter telescopes with CCD-detectors for optical and infrared spectral range with spectral and polarization filters. ... 15-cm telescope with cooling down to 80 K . ...