Comet-Chasing Rosetta Probe Spies Dusty Veil Around Its Target (Photos, Video)

Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 13:00 in Astronomy & Space

New images from Rosetta show that an 800-mile-long cloud of dust, known as a coma, has sprouted from the core of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta's captured this coma in a series of photos taken between March 27 and May 4.

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