Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. Three views of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 at different magnifications. At left is a view from Earth, the frame covering a width of 1,000,000 km. The bright streak at the centre is the string of nuclei and associated comas. At centre is an image of the nuclear region made by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), with a frame width of 160,000 km. At right is a magnified section of the HST image, showing the area around the brightest nucleus, with a frame width of 84,000 km. The comet made a close pass with Jupiter in 1992 and was split into several smaller objects. These will impact on Jupiter in 1994.