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Enceladus’ Jets Selectively Power-Up Farther From Saturn
A crowning achievement of the Cassini mission to Saturn is the discovery of water vapor jets spraying out from Enceladus' southern pole.…
How to Find Rosetta’s Comet In Your Telescope
How would you like to see one of the most famous comets with your own eyes? Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko plies the…
Rosetta’s Comet Sparkles with Ice, Blows Dust From Sinkholes
Comet 67P/C-G may be tiny at just 2.5 miles (4 km) across, but its diverse landscapes and the processes that shape…
Rosetta’s Comet Keeps On Jetting Even After the Sun Goes Down
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko certainly isn't a comet that dreads sundown. Images acquired by the OSIRIS instrument aboard ESA's Rosetta spacecraft in April 2015…
Hubble Captures a Collision in a Black Hole’s “Death Star” Beam
Even the Empire's planet-blasting battle station has nothing compared to the immense energy being fired from the heart of NGC 3862, a supermassive black…
Dust Whirls, Swirls and Twirls at Rosetta’s Comet
Tell me this montage shouldn't be hanging in the Lourve Museum. Every time I think I've seen the "best image"…
Rosetta’s Comet Really “Blows Up” in Latest Images
First off: no, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is not about to explode or disintegrate. But as it steadily gets nearer to the Sun the…
Rosetta Sees Fascinating Changes in Comet 67P
It only makes sense. Sunlight heats a comet and causes ice to vaporize. This leads to changes in the appearance…
Rosetta’s Comet in Thrilling 3-D
She's gonna blow! Rosetta's navigation camera recently grabbed our best view yet of the geyser-like jets spraying from the nucleus of Comet…
New Mosaic Reveals Jets Blasting from Rosetta’s Comet
Hidden among the four new images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko released by ESA this week are a pair of dusty jets…