APOD: 2026 October 17 – 3D 67P

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								3D 67P

						Explanation: Put on your red/blue glasses and float next to the jagged and double-lobed nucleus of Churyumov-Gerasimenko, also known as Comet 67P . The stereo anaglyph was created by combining two images from the Rosetta spacecraft's narrow angle OSIRIS camera taken on July 25, 2015 from a distance of 184 kilometers. Numerous jets are emanating from the small solar system world's active surface near its closest approach to the Sun. The larger lobe is around 4 kilometers in diameter, joined to a smaller, 2.5 kilometer diameter lobe by a narrow neck. Rosetta's mission to the comet ended in September 2016 when the spacecraft was commanded to a controlled impact with the comet's surface . Keep those 3D glasses on though. You can check out a  catalog of nearly 1400 stereo anaglyphs created from Rosetta image data on this website.Tomorrow's picture: open space						

										Date
										
											October 17, 2026											

										Credit:
										
											ESA , Rosetta , MPS , OSIRIS - Stereo Anaglyph: Philippe Lamy and The Team											

										Authors & editors:
										
											Jerry Bonnell, Cecilia Chirenti, Robert Nemiroff, Keighley Rockcliffe											

										A service of:
										
											ASD at NASA / GSFC,NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U.											

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Source: https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-october-17-3d-67p/