Post Thumbnails on Sidebar Widgets

There is no ability in the default widget, you will need to use third-party plugins to acheive your goal.

Here are some that I have found.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-recent-comments/

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