Comet detail – 30 October 2014 (a)

An image of a portion of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko obtained on 30 October, 2014 by Rosetta's OSIRIS…

Comet detail – 30 October 2014 (b)

A deliberately saturated version of this image to bring out details in a shadowed region of…

The ‘dark side’ of the comet

A rare glimpse at the dark side of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Light backscattered from dust particles in…

Comet detail – 30 October 2014 (a)

An image of a portion of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko obtained on 30 October, 2014 by Rosetta's OSIRIS…

Comet detail – 30 October 2014 (b)

A deliberately saturated version of this image to bring out details in a shadowed region of…

The ‘dark side’ of the comet

A rare glimpse at the dark side of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Light backscattered from dust particles in…

Comet detail – 30 October 2014 (a)

An image of a portion of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko obtained on 30 October, 2014 by Rosetta's OSIRIS…

Comet detail – 30 October 2014 (b)

A deliberately saturated version of this image to bring out details in a shadowed region of…

Solstice: Mimicking the Moon

When Galileo first observed Venus displaying a crescent phase, he excitedly wrote to Kepler (in anagram)…

A hazy nebula

This new image from Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 showcases NGC 1501, a complex planetary…