A Tau Herculid meteor shower? Online observation – 31 May 2022
Next 31 May 2022, there are chances to see a new meteor shower, the Tau Herculids. With some luck, it could be intense. True or not? We can only wait and see: join us...
Next 31 May 2022, there are chances to see a new meteor shower, the Tau Herculids. With some luck, it could be intense. True or not? We can only wait and see: join us...
Next 27 May 2022, the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (7335) 1989 JA will have a relatively close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 4 millions of km from the Earth. We will show it...
conjunction / event / planets
Next 01 May 2022, the brightest planets Venus and Jupiter will offer us a spectacular conjunction at dawn. We will show you it live, online. Such a stunning conjunction happens from time to time...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
Next 26 Apr. 2022, the near-Earth Asteroid 2022 HB1 will have a very close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 200.000 km from the Earth, 52% of the average lunar distance. The Virtual...
Il 16 maggio la Luna ci regalerà una bellissima eclissi totale. Essa sarà osservabile solo parzialmente dall’Italia, soprattutto dagli insonni, visto che si verificherà all’alba, al tramonto della Luna. Ma varrà la pena seguirla:...
asteroid / event / near Earth
Early on 6 Apr. 2022, the near-Earth asteroid 2022 GN1 had a very close, but safe encounter with the Earth, coming as close as 126.000 km from its center. We imaged it around the time...
asteroid / event / near Earth
Next 6 Apr. 2022, the near-Earth Asteroid 2022 GN1 will have a very close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 126.000 km from the Earth, 33% of the average lunar distance. The Virtual...
Join us and celebrate the beauty of our Universe together. The Virtual Telescope Project and Astronomers Without Borders bring to you this live event for Global Astronomy Month 2022. an official event for Global Astronomy Month (April...
asteroid / event / near Earth
Next 13 Mar. 2022, the near-Earth Asteroid 2022 ES3 will have a very close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 334.000 km from the Earth, 87% of the average lunar distance. The...
Next 24 Mar. 2022, the potentially hazardous asteroid 2013 BO76 will safely come relatively close to us, at 5.1 millions of km, about 13 times the average lunar distance. Here it is our recent...
We spotted potentially hazardous asteroid (138971) 2001 CB21 again last night. Here we present our latest image and video. The image above comes from a single 120-second exposure, remotely taken with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″+Paramount...
Next 22 Feb. 2022, the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (455176) 1999 Vf221 will have a relatively close and obviously safe fly-by with our planet, coming at about 5.4 millions of km from the Earth. The Virtual...
event / satellite / spacecraft
The Chang’e 5-T1 booster (not SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage) going to hit the Moon next 4 March did its last fly-by with the Earth and it is now heading to its final fate....
Next 4 Mar. 2022, the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (138971) 2001 CB21 will have a relatively close and obviously safe fly-by with our planet, coming at about 4.9 millions of km from the Earth. The Virtual...
– Venus & Jupiter, with Mercury (9 June 2026)
– Asteroid 1997 NC1 (26 & 27 June 2026)