A Comet Comes to Life
As Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko gets closer to the sun, the ice begins to heat up and subliminate into dusty gas shooting from the surface. This picture is a mosaic of four images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft on February 3, 2015.
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