Planet Mars is back and it is showing at its best. The Virtual Telescope Project will bring to you the beauty of the Red Planet on the night of its minimum distance from our Earth:...
event / satellite / spacecraft
Next 16 oct. 2022 the Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, will have a close fly-by with the Earth. The Virtual Telescope Project will bring it to you live, online! The...
Next 8 Nov, the Moon will offer us a superb total eclipse. We will bring the show to you live, thanks to an international team. *** Join it LIVE here! *** Next 8 Nov. 2022,...
Next 1 Nov. 2022, the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2022 RM4 will have a close, but safe encounter with us, coming at about 2.3 millions of km from the Earth, six times the average lunar distance....
Next 25 Oct. 2022, the Sun will offer us an interesting partial eclipse, also visible from Europe. The Virtual Telescope Project will bring to you the event, showing the eclipse live from Rome, Italy....
asteroid / event / satellite / spacecraft
Next 26 Sept. 2022, after a 10-month long journey, the Nasa’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft will reach the climax of its mission. It will impact on Dimorphos, the satellite of asteroid (65803) Didymos,...
The launch of Artemis I is much more than us going to the Moon again. It is the beginning of a new era. Because of the historic importance of this event, we decided to...
Next 1 Oct. 2022, the International Observe the Moon Night will be back. The Virtual Telescope Project – official supporter/key partner of this Nasa event since 2019 – will offer you the opportunity to...
On 14 Aug. 2022, Saturn, the Ringed Planet, will be at opposition, being visible at its best. We will show it live, online. Saturn is one of the most beautiful gems of the natural...
Get set to celebrate our home galaxy, the Milky Way! Based on the annual, traditional Tanabata festival held across Japan every summer, Astronomers Without Borders will be holding its own very special online Milky Way...
Next 12 August, we will have the fourth and last Supermoon of 2022, the Sturgeon full Moon. We will show it live, online, while it sets below the legendary skyline of Rome. Next 12 Aug....
The Perseid meteor shower is back, ready to put a nice show up there. We will share it live, online: join us from the comfort of your home. Because of the full Moon on...
conjunction / event / planets
Next 02 Aug. 2022, the red planet Mars will be in conjunction with Uranus, the first modern planet to be discovered. We will show you it live, online. Such a nice conjunction happens from...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
Next 10 July 2022, the near-Earth asteroid 2022 NR will have a very close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 383000 km from the Earth, marginally closer than the average lunar distance. The...
– Geminids 2025 (13 Dec. 2025)
– Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at its closest to the Earth (19 Dec. 2025)
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