Cameras of European Space Agency craft get within 330km of comet 67P as it hurtles past sun,rattles its ‘guest’, Philae, or spews out gas and boulders[br]Cameras on the Rosetta spacecraft captured powerful jets of steam and dust erupting from comet 67P as it tore past the sun on Thursday morning. Images beamed back from the probe showed the comet spewing fabric as it warmed up on its closest pass of the sun and began its journey back out into the frigid far reaches of the solar system.
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Source: theguardian.com