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Here’s your daily reminder that the final frontier is ruthless: For the first time ever, scientists have spotted a comet-like object getting torn apart by a white dwarf star. Thankfully, this pugnacious little star — called WD 1425+540 — is located 170 lightyears away from Earth in the constellation Boötes,…
High above us, perched precariously on the cold surface of a comet, there sits one of the most technologically-advanced and singular machines humanity ever sent to hurtle up into space and stick its unlikely landing. And now that it’s there, it’s totally ignoring all our attempts to talk to it.
This stunning view of Comet 67P/Churyumov — Gerasimenko shows what happens when its moves closer toward the Sun: it ejects gas and dust that gets left in its wake. And it looks gorgeous too.
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