But when a Twitter user with the handle Landru79 (a.k.a. Jacint Roger Perez) put them together in a one-second animated GIF ... falling on Comet 67P kilometers away in the background ...

To create this sped-up GIF, landru79 would have ... The stars create a densely speckled background, while only a few glimpses of white appear to zip across the comet’s surface.

And those dots in the background ... Landru79 posted another GIF on Twitter, which freezes the starfield in the clip in place, making it clearer that the comet is moving but the stars are mostly ...

Twitter user landru79 processed the gif from ... is the comet’s surface (still several kilometers away from the probe), and three kinds of specks. The stars in the background belong to the ...

Landru79 created a second gif that makes it easier to catch the Canis Major constellation in the background. It also makes it easier to see how the comet was moving when the footage was captured.

In fact, the subject of a 1.5-second GIF ... In the background, dots falling straight down and vanishing behind the cliff are likely stars that seem to be moving because the comet is rotating ...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta has given us a more detailed understanding of comets and provided us with spectacular images of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko during its two years of orbit ...

Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko is awash in ... ESA senior science advisor Mark McCaughrean tweeted that the stars in the background are in the direction of the constellation Canis Major.

Now you can get a glimpse of what it looks like to land on a comet. The European Space Agency (ESA) just released this amazing GIF of the Rosetta mission's Philae lander descending upon comet 67P ...

are in fact background stars. They have that apparent motion as the spacecraft moves and the comet rotates. The more rapidly moving streaks are thought to be dust particles illuminated by the Sun.

NASA spotted Comet ISON coming on strong on Thursday. An awesome set of images shows Comet Encke, its tail wriggling, along with Mercury and Earth. Then ISON enters the field. It looks like a ...