Rosetta spacecraft’s comet develops dusty envelope
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Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (center), is starting to grow a dust envelope, which extends over 1,300 kilometers from its core, according to images taken by a camera aboard the Rosetta spacecraft. The globular cluster M107 appears in the upper left.
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