Rosetta captures images of jet-blasting comet

Cameras of European Space Agency craft get within 330km of comet 67P as it hurtles past sun, rattles its 'guest', Philae, and spews out gas and boulders

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 material 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.