***SEE The Geminid Meteor Shower LIVE HERE!*** The Geminids meteors are ready to offer us an amazing shower, the best of this year, while their parent body, the potentially hazardous asteroid (3200) Phaethon, reaches its minimum...
***SEE asteroid Phaethon LIVE HERE!*** Among the asteroids, 3200 Phaethon stands out for a number of reasons. Discovered on 11 Oct. 1983, it was the first one to be discovered on images coming from...
The Virtual Telescope Project showed to the world the long awaited fly-by of the potentially hazardous asteroid (3122) Florence. Our live feed was featured by many very important international media, with a resulting audience...
While waiting to show it live, online tomorrow evening, at Virtual Telescope we imaged the potentially hazardous asteroid (3122) Florence again, while it was heading north. The image above comes from a single, 60-seconds...
These days, the potentially hazardous asteroid (3122) Florence is making a safe, close encounter with our Earth. Thanks to its size (about 4.3 km), it will be bright enough to be visible with small binoculars....
Next 01 Sept. 2017, the potentially hazardous asteroid (3122) Florence will safely come within 7 millions of km from the Earth, becoming the closest object of that size visiting us from the end of...
The potentially hazardous asteroid 3122 Florence will be a nice target in the sky at the end of August, offering us the closest approach, but safe, of an asteroid of this size over the...
As promised, we shared live images of the potentially hazardous asteroid 2014 JO25 around its safe close encounter with the Earth. Below is one of the images we collected. The image above is the...
A few hours before its minimum distance from the Earth, we observed the potentially hazardous asteroid 2014 JO25, while it was safely approaching us. The image above is a single, 30-seconds long exposure, remotely...
While waiting for its safe close encounter next 19 Apr., we imaged the potentially hazardous asteroid 2014 JO25, while it was still relatively faint and low above the horizon. The image above comes from...
On 19 April 2017, at 12:24 Universal Time, the potentially hazardous asteroid 2014 JO25, with a diameter of about 1 km, will make a safe close encounter with the Earth (1.7 millions of km,...
*** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** *** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** Next 19 Apr. 2017, at 12:24 UT, the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2014 JO25 will reach the minimum distance from the...
The amazing Asteroid Day is approaching and, as you know, the Virtual Telescope will offer several great online events, with amazing guests and more. But not only we want to offer our own activities...
At Virtual Telescope, we did a great work tracking the “Halloween”, potentially hazardous asteroid 2015 TB145 while approaching us late last Oct. We obtained an early image and planned a live, online event, which...
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