Here is how this particular sighting compares to others:
It’s the brightest jet ever seen by Rosetta. Normally, the camera has to be set to overexpose 67P/C-G’s nucleus to reveal the typically faint, wispy jets. Not this one. You can truly appreciate its brilliance because a single exposure captures both nucleus and plume with equal detail.
And note the small red circle shows where the outburst happened on the pic:
And here is some more info on the comet from wikipedia:
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (abbreviated as 67P or 67P/C-G, and written in Cyrillic as Чурюмова — Герасименко) is a comet, originally from the Kuiper belt,[6] with a current orbital period of 6.45 years,[1] a rotation period of approximately 12.4 hours[5] and a maximum velocity of 135,000 km/h (38 km/s; 84,000 mph).[7] Churyumov–Gerasimenko is approximately 4.3 by 4.1 km (2.7 by 2.5 mi) at its longest and widest dimensions.[8] It will next come to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 13 August 2015.[9][10][11] Like most comets, it is named after its discoverers, Soviet astronomers Klim Ivanovych Churyumov and Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko. They first observed it on photographic plates in 1969.
We hope you like the video and we’re looking forward to more updates as they come in.
thanks to universetoday.com for the great info
thanks to NASA for the pic
