With no doubts, the most famous potentially hazardous asteroid known to date is (99942) Apophis. Discovered in 2004, it showed a very interesting orbit, bringing it very close to our planet. On Apr. 2029,...
The race is over. While I’m writing this, the potentially hazardous asteroid (4179) Toutatis is on its orbit, leaving us after the close encounter it had with the Earth on Dec. 12. It was...
The potentially hazardous asteroid (4179) Toutatis reached its minimum distance from the Earth on Dec. 12, at 6:40 UT. About ten hours later, while still within 7 millions of km from our planet, the Virtual Telescope...
At the Virtual Telescope, we have been constantly following the potentially hazardous asteroid (4179) Toutatis. In the image above, the telescope tracked the asteroid, so stars appears as trails. The video below comes from...
The potentially hazardous asteroid (4179) Toutatis is approaching its minimum distance from the Earth. The Virtual Telescope is monitoring it and captured the image above, where the PlaneWave 17 robotic unit was tracking the...
After the request of several observers, we made available this finding chart to locate the potentially hazardous asteroid (4179) Toutatis. The asteorid is shown at 00:00 UT for several days. Its brightness will be high...
While approaching our planet, the potentially hazardous asteroid (4179) Toutatis is monitored by the Virtual Telescope robotic facility and these image and video come from a good observing session. In the image above, the...
The potentially hazardous asteroid (4179) Toutatis continues its trip around the Sun, bringing it in a few days to a minimum distance of 7 millions of km from our Planet. It is worth to...
*** The Virtual Telescope will offer a FREE online, live observing session, sharing images in real time, as well as the audio comment by its astrophysicists. The online event is scheduled for Dec. 13,...
Spectrum of Mu Cephei, obtained at the Virtual Telescope The Virtual Telescope is very proud to announce that a new option will be available soon for our online users: stellar spectroscopy! We have just...
[fvplayer src=”https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/video/CoseAltroGeo12nov2012.flv”] Rai Tre, “Cose dell’altro Geo”, 12 Novembre 2012 Back to “Podcast” page Support The Virtual Telescope Project! Support us! Please, donate and receive an EXCLUSIVE, image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS...
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Our monthly description of the night sky, month after month, is back with a new series. As always, it will be a live broadcast, with Gianluca Masi, from the Virtual Telescope Project. Discover what...
On Oct. 25 the small asteroid 2012 UV158 (about 50 meters in diameter), discovered the same day by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, reached a minimum distance from the earth of a bit...
This image of comet 168P/Hergenrother was obtained under excellent seeing conditions, between 1.3″ and 1.5″. More than 100 single frames were averaged, avoiding stellar contamination. More details are on the final image above. Images...
– Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at its closest to the Earth (20 Dec. 2025)
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