Two days before their historic conjunction, Jupiter and Saturn were a stunning sight, despite the poor and bright sky. Here it is our latest view. The image above comes from a single 1-second, blue...
A few hours ago, the near-Earth asteroid 2020 RD4 had a extremely close, but safe, approach with our planet, reaching a minimum distance from the Earth of about 110000 km, 0.28 times the average...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
On 14 Sept. 2020, the near-Earth Asteroid 2020 RD4 will have an extremely close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 100000 km from the Earth, 1/4th of the average lunar distance. The...
Earlier today, the near-Earth asteroid 2020 RF3 had a extremely close, but safe, approach with our planet, reaching a minimum distance from the Earth of about 92000 km, 0.24 times the average distance of...
The Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (162082) 1998 HL1 had a close encounter with us a few nights ago. While we were sharing it live via our website, this space rock had another meeting: it “crossed”...
On 29 Oct. 2019, the near-Earth asteroid 2019 UC will have a safe, close encounter with our planet, coming at about 1.1 millions of km from us, 2.9 times the average distance the Moon....
Next 10 Nov. 2018, the near-Earth asteroid 2018 VX1 will safely have a very close encounter with our planet, coming at about 380.000 km from us, a bit closer than the Moon. We just...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
The near-Earth a steroid 2018 CC is safely approaching us, meantime we captured it while sharing it live with the world. Here it is an image. Above it is an image coming from a single 120-seconds...
On 21 Aug. 2017, a wonderful total solar eclipse will show from the United States of America, becoming one the most admired natural events in history. At Virtual Telescope we will be sharing it...
The summer sky is coming with its treasures and we could not resist to image the venerable Messier 8, the “Lagoon” nebula with the stunning Tenagra III robotic telescope, placed under the fabulous stars of the...
– The Beaver Supermoon 2024: online observation (15 Nov. 2024)
– Asteroid 2020 XR: online observation (3 Dec. 2024)
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