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Near-Earth Asteroid 2019 SL7: 7 Oct. 2019

10/09/2019

Near-Earth Asteroid 2019 SL7 very close encounter: an image (8 Oct. 2019)

On 9 Oct. 2019, the near-Earth asteroid 2019 SL7 has a safe, close encounter with our planet, coming at about 540.000 km from us, a bit further than the Moon. We captured it! The...

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov (C/2019 Q4 Borisov): 08 Oct. 2019

comets / interstellar

10/08/2019

2I/Borisov = C/2019 Q4, the first interstellar ever discovered: a new image – 8 Oct. 2019

After our first images of this unique object, we captured again the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov under excellent sky conditions, recording a coma and a tail. Here it is our new image. Few days after...