Do micro-organisms explain features on comets?
Sunday, July 5, 2015 - 21:00
in Astronomy & Space
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, studied in detail by the European Space Agency Rosetta and Philae spacecraft since September 2014, is a body with distinct and unexpected features. Now two astronomers have a radical explanation for its properties – micro-organisms that shape cometary activity.