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Scientists Discover 27,500 Asteroids in Old Telescope Images Using A.I.
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoAs this cloud collapsed under its gravity, likely prompted by a nearby supernova explosion, it flattened into a swirling disk of debris around the sun. Today, NASA estimates these space rocks ...
AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in old telescope images
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA bright dot in the center is orbited on all sides by innumerous small green points among black...
The Space Review: Review: The Asteroid Hunter
The Space Review· 2 days agoFor Dante Lauretta, it was an ad in a student newspaper. “WORK FOR NASA” declared the full-page ad that he stumbled across while perusing the Arizona...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
7 News Miami· 6 days agoThe space rock, known as 2016 HO3, is a rare quasi-satellite — a type of near-Earth asteroid that...
Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
SPACE.com· 5 days agoWhen NASA's Lucy mission passed by the near-Earth asteroid Dinkinesh last November, it discovered that Dinkinesh had a companion — a little moonlet that astronomers soon named ...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
AccuWeather· 6 days agoThe Giordano Bruno crater matched all of the criteria determined by impact simulations in the study. (CNN) — An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk ...
How closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids?
Astronomy Magazine· 4 days agoHow closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids compared to the density of the main belt? Jupiter’s Trojans are asteroids that share the gas giant’s orbit ...
How to Catch the Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower, Leftover Debris from Halley's Comet
Sci Fi Wire· 6 days agoThe 2021 disaster movie Asteroid (streaming now on Peacock) is just one of many cinematic stories...
Could alien life be hiding in the rings of Saturn or Jupiter?
Space via Yahoo News· 13 hours ago"You kind of need an atmosphere to keep liquid water stable," Tiscareno said. "It wouldn't...
'Baby asteroid' just a toddler in space years
Science Daily· 6 days agoThe team derived the age of Selam, a "moonlet" circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, based only on dynamics ...
