Rosetta‘s navigation camera took this picture on 18 August, 2014, at about 84 km from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet nucleus is roughly 4 km across.
Image Credit: ESA
hogewash
Never pick a fight with a man who buys pixels by the terabyte.
What amazing things we are able to do. It boggles the mind to look at God’s beauty this way
It needs some graffiti.
Where is all the ice and tail? This just looks like a big rock.
It is a big rock…I think… but “asteroid” is too hard to spell for most astronomers. Besides, this lumpy b@stard is made of rock AND ice so take your pick I guess.
The tail should appear, if it has one, when it’s closer to the sun, and warms up. That should melt some ice, release some vapor and make it start acting like a proper comet instead of it’s current impression of John Hurt in the Elephant Man.
Also, high fives from librarygriffon for my wicked awesome use of the Oxford comma. I lurves me some good a$$ engrish usage.