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...
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...
– Planetary Parade (26 Jan. 2025)
