03/16/2021 - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (231937) 2001 FO32: 16 Mar. 2021.

asteroid / event / near Earth / Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

03/16/2021

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (231937) 2001 FO32 close encounter: a new image – 16 Mar. 2021

We spotted the potentially hazardous asteroid (231937) 2001 FO32 again last night, despite it was very low above the horizon. Here it is our image. The image above comes from a single 300-second exposure, remotely...

Supernovae SN 2021cah in UGC 2270 and SN 2021dpu in UGC 2261 galaxies: 15 Mar. 2021.

galaxy / supernova

03/16/2021

Supernovae SN 2021cah in UGC 2270 and SN 2021dpu in UGC 2261 galaxies: an image – 15 Mar. 2021

Spotting a supernova in a very distant galaxy is always cool, but what if you see two in two different galaxies, but on the same telescopic image, at the same time? This is the...