Source:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Published:
May 11, 2011
This image, processed to show the true size of the giant asteroid Vesta, shows Vesta in front of a spectacular background of stars. It was obtained by the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 3, 2011, from a distance of about 750,000 miles.