Comets
NASA's NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood.
A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before its controlled impact into the comet's surface on Sept. 30, 2016.
“Just as the Rosetta Stone after which this mission was named was pivotal in understanding ancient language and history, the vast treasure trove of Rosetta spacecraft data is changing our view on how comets and the Solar System formed.”
The 4.5-billion-year-old comet is roughly 67 million miles from Earth.
A foul perfume that smells like rotten eggs, cat urine and bitter almonds!
The findings support the theory that the building blocks for life were delivered to Earth with comets.
Earth was likely a rocky wasteland until comets smashed into it.
This shower is created by the famous Halley’s Comet.