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245E-257-Raw Asteroid
Most asteroids that we observe have been baked by the Sun for billions of years. As a result, any ices or frozen gases that they may have once posses…
2 years, 7 months ago
755-Geyser of Life-Maybe
In 2023 the James Webb Space Telescope spotted a geyser of water vapor extending more than 80% of the Earth’s diameter erupting from Saturn’s moon En…
2 years, 7 months ago
244E-256-Pale Blue Dot
More than 25 years ago Voyager 1 took a picture of the Earth from beyond Pluto's orbit. This image shows our home planet to be an isolated tiny pale …
2 years, 7 months ago
754-Very Fast Moving Objects In The Night Sky
Very small fast moving asteroids pass through our solar system.About once a month an object like 2023 KU4 enters our atmosphere, releases the energy…
2 years, 7 months ago
243E-255-Earth Venus Express
We will probably never know the details of the collision that put my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls' recent discovery, 2016 HD3, on its cur…
2 years, 8 months ago
753-Impactor Lights Up the Night Sky
Very small fast moving asteroids pass through our solar system.About once a month an object like 2023 KU4 enters our atmosphere, releases the energy …
2 years, 8 months ago
242E-254-Blinded
Blinded by inappropriate outdoor night lighting, much of humanity is now unaware of the rich beauty of the Universe which surrounds them. To see sigh…
2 years, 8 months ago
752-Lunker
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting , in the evening twilight, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona …
2 years, 8 months ago
241E-253-Lunar Village
Covered by a blanket of lunar soil to protect it from BB sized meteoroids arriving a gunshot speeds, a village is nestled in a large crater on our mo…
2 years, 8 months ago
751-Ball Pit
To the amazement of NASA scientists, when the NASA OSIRIS-Rex touched down on the surface of Bennu to obtain a sample, the sample collecting arm cont…
2 years, 8 months ago