asteroid / event / free / near Earth
24 hours before its close encounter, the PlaneWave 17″ robotic unit imaged the near-Earth asteroid 2003 DZ15 while it was “running2 across the stars. The picture above shows very well how fast this rock is...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
Near-Earth asteroid 2003 DZ15 has almost reached its minimum distance from the Earth: it will be touched early next 30 July, when this rock will be at 3.5 millions of km from us. While...
Near-Earth Asteroid 2003 DZ15 is on its way around the Sun, approaching the Earth for the 30 July rendez-vous: that day it will be at 3.5 millions of km from our home, this being...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
The 160 meters large near-Earth asteroid 2003 DZ15 continues to approach us, waiting to touch the minimum distance of 3.5 millions of km next 30 July. Of course, it is a very safe close...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
Near-Earth asteroid 2003 DZ15 was expected to return close the to the Earth next 29 July. This prevision was based on its last observation, dated March 2003. Since then the object was no...
Here there are a few images of Saturn automatically taken by the Celestron C14 robotic unit while the Cassini spacecraft was going to take an image of the ringed planet with our planet...
On July 19, 2013, the Cassini spacecraft, currently in orbit around Saturn, will be turned to image that planet and its entire ring system during an eclipse of the sun, as it has...
*** Enter the Live Event Here! *** Many of us never get a chance to observe the night sky from our opposite hemisphere. Now Astronomers Without Borders and its partners, the Virtual Telescope...
event / free / near Earth
*** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** *** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** Next 30 July 2013 at 00:37 UT, the near-Earh asteroid 2003 DZ15 will reach a minimum distance...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
The Near-Earth Asteroid 2013 LR6 was observed live and shared online on our website with thousands of people joining from all around the globe. At the time of the image above it was...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
On July 8, at 04:43 UT, the small, just discovered asteroid 2013 LR6 will reach a minimum distance from the Earth of about 110.000 km. It is a very safe distance, so it will...
The 1998 QE2 online event went very well! Despite the clouds initially limited the visibility of the object, people connected online to the Virtual Telescope could spy this object soon after the closest approach....
See asteroid 1998 QE2 live HERE! Next 31 May 2013 at 20:59 UT, potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) 285263 (1998 QE2) will reach a minimum distance from the Earth of 5.8 millions of km. This is...
event / free / near Earth
The recently discovered asteroid 2013 JM22 will have a close encounter with the Earth next May 16, when it will reach a minimum distance from our planet of a bit less than 8...
– Moon-Mars conjunction (9 Feb. 2025)
