An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. Here's how astronomers are tracking it
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
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In emergency decision, James Webb telescope will study 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 before its close approach to Earth
In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...
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How do astronomers track asteroids that could threaten Earth?
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Nasa using world’s most powerful telescope to examine asteroid that could smash into Earth
Scientists will point the world’s most powerful telescope at the asteroid 2024 YR4, in the hope of understanding whether it ...
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World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
NASA Calls in Webb Telescope to Track Recently Identified Hazardous Asteroid
The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are shifting, with the space rock now carrying a 1-in-48 chance of collision.
NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
Odds of asteroid hitting Earth went up, but that was expected: What to know about 2024 YR4
The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...
You can watch the ‘city-killer’ asteroid as it soars toward Earth
Watch as a city-killer asteroid set to possibly crash into Earth in 2032 zooms away from Earth in new telescope footage.
How A Balloon-Borne Antarctic Telescope Could Help Detect An Earth 2.0
An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...
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Hubble Space Telescope spots a spectacular Bullseye in deep space (image)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible ... "I was looking at a ground-based imaging survey and when I saw a galaxy with several clear rings, I was immediately drawn to ...
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NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
space telescope resting in the airtight ... and post-processing [imaging] techniques that happen on the ground. You can then remove that star signal and extract that very small planetary signal.” ...