NASA shares GIF of a new flaring black hole 30,000 light-years away that was discovered by students studying an asteroid Students using NASA’s OSIRIS-REx to study an asteroid found a new black hole It sits 30,000 light-years away and was spotted by its X-ray emissions The team found it just a week after Japan’s MAXI telescope … Read more
It was revealed in a grainy black and white photo, but astronomers have just released the first colored image of Earth’s new mini-moon. Called 2020 CD3, the asteroid has been orbiting our Earth for three years and was spotted on February 15 using the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona. The recent image was created … Read more
Earth has a new mini-moon: Asteroid the size of a washing machine has been orbiting Earth for the past three years Astronomers tracked an asteroid in the sky and found it is orbiting Earth The asteroid, seen on Feb. 15., has now been confirmed as a mini-moon It is six to 12 feet in diameter and … Read more