Someone has put together the photos of NASA’s EPOXI Mission fly-by of Comet Hartley 2, made them into an animation and loaded them up to You Tube.

This comet is a weird beast, as last Monday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day points out.

I’m a big fan of the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.

A couple of days ago it posted up five pictures of comet Hartley 2 as seen by Nasa’s EPOXI Mission spacecraft.

One of them was this. Stunning, isn’t it?