I think I’m going to let this one speak for itself: What you’re looking at is the surface of the comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is orbited by the ...

To create this sped-up GIF, landru79 would have rotated the original images by 90 degrees, McCaughrean notes. Without this rotation, “the ‘snow stars’ would move sideways,” he writes.

Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas ...

Cosmic rays, dust and stars swirl above a rocky cliff on the comet 67P. The images that make up this cool GIF were taken in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.

He uses animated GIFs to simulate 3-D images by quickly alternating stereoscopic perspectives (fooling our brains into thinking that we’re seeing two views at once).