Self-Portrait 10 Miles From a Comet

Holy Periodic Comet Photos! Check. This. Out! That is a self-portrait taken by the Philae landing craft onboard the Rosetta space probe, when they were just 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. You can see the side of Rosetta on the left and the solar panel that's keeping it powered on the right. And at the top is the comet itself, magnificent and moody in this high-contrast grayscale composite (two images were combined so that both the spacecraft and comet were exp...