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Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158. The majestic galaxy has a pinwheel shape consisting of bright blue stars surrounding a yellow-white concentration of central stars. This concentration has a diagonal line of stars across it, called a bar. The galaxy is tilted inward to our view from Earth. A white S-shaped line slightly across the top is the Hubble image of an asteroid hovering across the field of view.. It looks dashed because the image is a composite of several exposures of the asteroid flying like a race car. Credit: NASA, ESA, PG Martín (Autonomous University of Madrid), J. DePasquale (STScI). Credits: A. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley)

Discovering new asteroids in old Hubble images

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Astronomers re-examined 37,000 images taken by Hubble over 19 years of objects in deep space. The reward was finding 1701 asteroid orbits in the asteroid belt, of which 1031 are uncatalogued asteroids. About 400 of these uncatalogued asteroids are roughly less than a kilometer in size
Artist illustration of asteroid 16 Psyche. Credit: Maxar/ASU/P.Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech

משימת 'פסיקה' של נאס”א לעםמן משטלטי may reveal את תעלומת הליבה של קורד הארזן

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The Psyche spacecraft is launched to the metallic asteroid of the same name to understand what a planet's core looks like
Artist illustration of asteroid 16 Psyche Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

The precious metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche may not be a solid lump of metal after all but a pile of rocks

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The researchers based their work on previous observational data that showed the asteroid is primarily a mixture of three components: metal, low-iron pyroxene and carbonaceous chondrite. A laboratory experiment led the researchers to the conclusion that the density of the asteroid is low. A NASA spacecraft is expected to reach it by 2026
Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system (artist's rendering). Credit: /Murayama, Osaka University

A massive asteroid shower hit the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago

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Two images from different observations of the Pallas asteroid, which is now considered the most crushing object in the solar system. Courtesy of the researchers

The celestial golf ball - new details about the asteroid Palace

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Photo: JPL

The DAWN spaceship finished its mission, after losing contact with it

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A mine in the earth, polluting its environment. Photo: Dassault Systems

Will mining asteroids save the earth?

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The dwarf planet's surface has collapsed as photographed by the orbiting DAWN spacecraft. The white substance inside the crater is a type of salt. Photo: NASA

The mystery of Cress is solved

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Illustration of the meteorite impact that caused the unique double crater in Sweden. Credit: Don Dixon/Erik Sturkell/University of Gothenburg

For the first time, a double impact crater was found on Earth

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The best image we have of the collapsed asteroid was before the Dawn spacecraft reached it. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

Toward the Dawn: Discovery of the dwarf dwarf planet Ceres, 1/1/1801

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Yabusa 2 spacecraft. Image: Japanese space agency JAXA

The Japanese are flying to another asteroid

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The asteroid Chariklo. ESO/L. Calçada/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)

Rings were discovered around an asteroid for the first time

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The asteroid P/2013 R3 after its disintegration. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope recorded for the first time the disintegration of an asteroid into at least ten different pieces

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An artist's image of Mars, with asteroids passing by. Photo: NASA

Asteroids can shake and shed the ground due to the gravity of Mars

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An asteroid that looks like a sprinkler with six comet tails. Photo. NASA

Asteroid - sprinkler with six tails

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Solar System. Illustration: shutterstock

Mathematical calculations for discovering planets - is history repeating itself these days?

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NASA plans to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit around the Earth

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Capturing an asteroid with a diameter of 7 meters and a weight of 500 tons. Credit: Rick Sternbach / KISS

NASA is exploring the possibility of giving the moon its own moon

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Astronomer David Levy. From Wikipedia

Asteroid by the Hebrew University

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A model of the Arcade 100 space telescope that is being developed by the Planetary Resources company to locate asteroids with potential for mining minerals. From Wikipedia

The pot of gold at the end of the arch

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Asteroid Vesta as imaged by the DAWN spacecraft on July 18, 2011

The asteroid Vesta - summary of findings

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The asteroid belt - from Wikipedia

Asteroids with unusual properties

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Asteroid Ida and its moon Dactyl, as photographed by the Galileo spacecraft

Asteroids with moons

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Asteroid Lutetia as imaged by the Rosetta spacecraft on July 10, 2010

The asteroid Lutetia - summary of findings

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Map of Vesta's South Pole - This image gallery of the south pole of the asteroid Vesta was created from dozens of individual images taken by the framing camera on board the DAWN spacecraft. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

NASA has released spectacular images from DAWN's pass over the asteroid Vesta

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