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Near-Earth asteroid 2003 DZ15 getting closer: 23 July 2013

Near-Earth asteroid 2003 DZ15 getting closer: 23 July 2013

The 160 meters large near-Earth asteroid 2003 DZ15 continues to approach us, waiting to touch the minimum distance of 3.5 millions of km next 30 July. Of course, it is a very safe close...

The Earth and the Moon imaged by Cassini probe from Saturn, 19 July 2013

Earth-Moon image by Cassini, from Saturn

    The image above was taken on July 19, 2013 and received on Earth July 20, 2013. The camera was pointing toward EARTH at approximately 898,410,414 miles (1,445,851,410 kilometers) away, and the image...

The Day The Earth Smiled: 19 July 2013

The Day The Earth Smiled: images

  Here there are  a few images of Saturn automatically taken by the Celestron C14 robotic unit while the Cassini spacecraft was going to take an image of the ringed planet with our planet...

M 2

M 2 – Aqr

Messier 2 is one of the deep sky wonders of Aquarius. It was discovered by Jean-Dominique Maraldi in 1746 and its stars were firstly recognized by William Herschel in 1783. M 2 is located at about 37.000...

M 15

M 15 – Peg

Globular clusters are famous for their high concentration of stars: think of the cosmic void, then meet these regions with up to a million of stars so closely packed together by gravity and you...