About 17,000 Big Near-Earth Asteroids Remain Undetected: How NASA Could Spot Them0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 16, 2018
Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game.
Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game.
Scientists working on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet’s polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, powering the magnetic field for any planet beyond Earth.
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Later in 2018, two robotic probes, launched by NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will each reach separate asteroids.
New research finds potentially thousands of black holes orbiting within a few light-years of the galactic center.