Comets
Neck Of Rosetta’s ‘Rubby Duckie’ Comet Shows A Bright Ring
Rosetta's "rubber duckie" comet appears to be wearing a collar! New images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from the spacecraft, which is…
Once Upon a Time There Was a Spacecraft Called Rosetta…
…and that time is now! ESA's Rosetta spacecraft is just over a mere two weeks away from its arrival at…
Rosetta Zooms Toward an Extraordinary Comet
I thought the photos earlier this week were amazing. This little movie, made of 36 'smoothed' or interpolated images of…
ISON Stopped Making Dust Just Before It Passed By The Sun And Disintegrated
Last year's Thanksgiving adventure for astronomers happened when Comet ISON passed within 1.2 million kilometres (750,000 miles) of the Sun.…
Rosetta’s Lander Facing An Unexpected Comet Shape: A Double Nucleus
A view of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's nucleus, appearing to show a double binary. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA It appears…
Comet Jacques Is Back! Joins Venus and Mercury at Dawn
Comet C/2014 E2 Jacques has returned! Before it disappeared in the solar glow this spring, the comet reached magnitude +6, the naked…
Rosetta’s Comet Looks Like A Kidney Flying Through Space
Up for a little abstract art, anyone? The latest images of the nucleus of Rosetta's comet makes it look like…
Rosetta Watches Comet 67P Tumbling Through Space
This is really getting exciting! ESA's Rosetta spacecraft (and the piggybacked Philae lander) are in the home stretch to arrive at Comet…
How Big is Rosetta’s Comet?
Pretty darn big, I'd say. The illustration above shows the relative scale of the comet that ESA's Rosetta and Philae…
Rosetta’s Comet Already Sweating The Small Stuff, Far From The Sun
Feeling thirsty? If you could somehow capture the water vapor from Rosetta's comet, you would have the equivalent of two…