Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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Writing this week in Science, an international team describes the first millimeter-wave measurements made from June through September 2014, of the comet's nucleus and of water vapor and other molecules in the coma of gas and dust that is beginning to form around the comet as it approaches the Sun.

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European Space Agency

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