​​A Stunning New Video Shows a Comet's Surface as It Hurtles Through Space This is the most beautiful thing we've seen t…

​​A Stunning New Video Shows a Comet's Surface as It Hurtles Through Space

This is the most beautiful thing we've seen today.
In August 2014, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft pulled up to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and studied the gritty, duck-shaped object for 2 years.

Today the ESA continues to publish new images taken by the probe, and in March it released a fresh batch of data.Many of Rosetta's photos were taken in sequence – so Twitter user "landru79" stacked and stitched the pictures into a stunning new timelapse movie, posted Monday.

"Amazing scene from #comet #67P," the ESA tweeted about landru79's work.

The video clip (below) shows roughly 25 minutes of flight past Comet 67P on June 1, 2016. The scene looks like something out of a science-fiction film: