A String of Pearls. This composite image of the 22 fragments that make up Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in January 1994. The comet was torn into pieces by Jupiter's gravitational pull as it passed the planet in 1992. The Planetary Report calls it "Jupiter's celestial necklace."

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