The Full Snow Moon 2023: online observation – 5 Feb. 2023
The Full Snow Moon is coming next 5 Feb. and the Virtual Telescope is ready to show it live, while it rises above Rome. Join us online, from the comfort of your home. At the...
The Full Snow Moon is coming next 5 Feb. and the Virtual Telescope is ready to show it live, while it rises above Rome. Join us online, from the comfort of your home. At the...
Soon after its perihelion, we imaged comet C/2022 E3 ZTF again, while it continues to slowly brightening. The image above comes from the sigma-clipping combination of 30, 60-second exposures, unfiltered, remotely collected with the “Elena”...
Next 1 Feb. 2023, comet C/2022 E3 ZTF will have its flyby with the Earth, reaching the minimum distance from our planet. We will show it live, online: join us from the comfort of...
Next 4 Jan. the Quadrantid meteor shower will reach its peak of activity and we will share it live, online: join us from the comfort of your home! * Because of a very hazy...
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....
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 the 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...
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...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
On 7 July 2022, the near-Earth asteroid 2022 NF will have an extremely close, but safe encounter with our Earth, coming as close as 90.000 km from its center. We shared it live while...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth
Next 7 July 2022, the near-Earth Asteroid 2022 NF will have an extremely close, but safe, encounter with us, coming at about 89.000 km from the Earth, 23% of the average lunar distance. The Virtual...
Next 14 July, comet C/2017 K2 Panstarrs will reach its minimum distance from the Earth. We will show it live: join us from the comfort of your home. Next 14 July, comet C/2017 K2...