US EditionAsteroids Near Earth: We're Just About to Escape a Disaster This Year
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Huge boulders are regularly approaching the Earth. For 2025, the U.S. Space Agency has already listed more than 100 that will come dangerously close to the Earth. Some of them are real giants.
The famed Vera C. Rubin Telescope detected thousands of asteroids during its first observations of the starry sky, adding another string to the observatory’s bow even though it was not designed to detect such celestial objects. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s telescope will have the potential to discover millions of asteroids in the coming years. At its first global press conference on June 24, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory announced the discove…
In 2032, the sky could offer a spectacle as beautiful as it is worrying. A staroid nicknamed 2024 YR4, of sufficient size to shave an entire city, no longer directly threatens the Earth... but could hit the Moon. This amazing scenario, modelled by researchers in a recent study, could lead to a rain of space debris in the [...]
The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Cerro Pachón, Chile, in 2021 during its construction. Source: Rubin Obs./NSF/AURA Everything we know about the Universe we have found out by studying its light. If we except for the Apollo missions that stepped on the Moon and a handful of probes and Rovers scattered through some nearby bodies, the rest of our astronomical knowledge comes from the careful analysis of those dim luminous spots that shine at nig…
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