Later today, near-Earth asteroid 2020 PY2 will have a very close, but safe, approach with our planet, reaching a minimum distance from the Earth of about 350000 km, 0.91 times the average distance of...
Next 26 Sept. 2020, the International Observe the Moon Night will be back and, once again, the Virtual Telescope Project will offer you a unique opportunity to join the celebrations from the comfort of...
On 8 Aug. 2020, the Trans-Neptunian object (307261) 2002 MS4 occulted the star UCAC4 419-096262, offering to astronomers a unique opportunity to unveil its precious physical features. Our observing site was exceptionally close to...
Since its discovery, we regularly followed up supernova SN 2020nlb in Messier 85, covering its evolution in a truly spectacular way. here we present the current status of this transient. The image above comes...
While slowly leaving the inner Solar System, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE is surfing our skies making very interesting “encounters”: last night, we caught it with globular cluster Messier 53. The image above comes from...
We have just captured the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to the Red Planet with our telescopes and we are happy to share a image and a great time-lapse with you. By the way:...
The Perseid meteor shower is back, ready to put a nice show up there. At Virtual Telescope, we will share its peak live, online: join and and enjoy the show from the comfort of...
*** Le meteore di San Lorenzo in diretta web! *** Puntuale come ogni anno, ritorna l’appuntamento con le celebri meteore di agosto, le popolari “Lacrime di San Lorenzo”, meglio note come Perseidi. Senza dubbio...
Earlier today, near-Earth asteroid 2020 OY4 had a extremely close, but safe, approach with our planet, reaching a minimum distance from the Earth of about 42000 km, 0.11 times the average distance of the...
While slowly fading, we could admire comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE again, this time framed by the wonderful scenario of lake Bracciano, North of Rome. The comet was not alone: a sharp Moon crescent, the...
We imaged Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE under a dark sky and we were impressed with its magnificence. Here it is our image. The image above comes from the average of 6, 30-seconds exposures taken...
New hi-res images of comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE continue to show the amazing dust wave structures we first reported on 15 July. Imaging the comet 90 minutes apart, we recorded expansion of the shells....
After our past observations, revealing a dramatic pattern of dust waves in the inner coma of comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, we managed to capture new images, still showing that prominent feature. As for our...
After imaging it with large field-of-view lenses, we could finally capture a close-up of comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE. Images show a dramatic structure of dust waves, resembling those observed in comet Hale-Bopp in 1997....
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