Tag Archives: Comets

Rosetta Captures Firework as Comet 67P Nears Sun

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A flare erupting from Comet 67P got caught in photographic form. Rosetta’s camera did the job. The comet is heating up as it nears the sun. The probe Rosetta is chasing it as it gets up close and...

Rosetta Spots Dust Jets emerging from Sinkholes on Comet 67P

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ESA's Rosetta has been monitoring Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko’s activity for over a year, watching how its halo of dust and gas grows as the comet moves closer to the Sun along its orbit.Now a...

Rosetta discovers Building Blocks of Life on Comet

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The Rosetta space probe landed on a comet which shows for the first time ever the visible signs of rudimentary life (building blocks of life). The host comet has a variety of prominent landscape...

Rosetta Rendezuous with Comet underway Now [Uptdate]

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The Rosetta spacecraft launched in 2004 and arrives at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko today, 6 August. It is the first mission in space history to rendezvous with a comet. The idea is to  ...

Rosetta Rendezuous with Comet underway Now [Uptdate]

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The Rosetta spacecraft launched in 2004 and arrives at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko today, 6 August. It is the first mission in space history to rendezvous with a comet. The idea is to  ...

Meteor Shower Created by Halley’s Comet is on Display

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A meteor shower will appear in the night sky today. And it is a creation of the debris left by Halley’s Comet. For those who cannot view it due to clouds, the action can be seen live on the Internet...

Comet ISON Observed in the Night Sky

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NASA’s probe which was quite close to Mercury sent back photographs of Comet ISON to earth. Several other space missions are also on standby to record the journey of the comet through its path across...

Comet ISON Going on Peak This November

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Comets are ephemeral objects that come and go. Maybe the most prominent one happens to be Halley’s Comet which passes by earth’s orbit every 75 years or so. The last time it appeared was in 1986 and...