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.