Tag: comet
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Comet 67P. Micro-organisms. Humility…
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. (1) What seems big is shaped by things seemingly small… Everything is made up…
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Perception. Being inside. Being outside. A comet's tail...
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has sent back some amazing photos as it approaches comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet and prepares to land on its surface. But we have a question: Where's the tail? Gerhard Schwehm, former manager of the Rosetta mission, tells Popular Science that the tail as we see it from Earth looks very…
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