Early this morning, we captured a unique image, showing together the wonderful spiral galaxy Messier 100 and the famous dwarf planet (1) Ceres. Here it is our image. The image above comes from the...
On 27 Mar. 2023, the dwarf planet (1) Ceres will shine apparently extremely close, actually superimposed, to the stunning spiral galaxy Messier 100, offering a unique view. We will show this cosmic “meeting” live,...
On 26 Feb. 2023, the dwarf planet (1) Ceres will shine apparently close to the beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 4654, offering a nice view. We will show this cosmic “meeting” live, online. + Updates:...
Our Solar System is a much more fascinating and complex place than many of us believe. Only ten years ago, astronomers decided that Pluto was indeed not a planet, but a dwarf one, creating...
asteroid / conjunction / event / free
Finally, at Virtual Telescope we observed the dwarf planet (1) Ceres and the asteroid (4) Vesta at their minimum angular distance (10 arcminutes, 1/3 of the angular size of the full Moon disk), sharing...
asteroid / conjunction / event / free
While Ceres and Vesta prepare their closest conjunction. at Virtual Telescope we imaged this unusual couple again. Above is an image showing the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta less than 12 arcminutes...
asteroid / conjunction / event / free
Next 5 July, we will show live the amazing, rare conjunction between the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta. While waiting for this big show, we captured this view already showing the couple...
*** See Ceres and Vesta live here! *** Next 5 July 2014, the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta will apparently meet in the same spot in the sky: they will be less...
The “Vesta Watch” live event was intended to show live, online images of the bright asteroid (4) Vesta during its favorable 2014 apparition, just in April 2014, by chance overlapping with Global Astronomy Month...
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