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Goodnight moon! Astronomers snap photo of Earth's departing mini-moon

Astronomers used the Two-meter Twin Telescope to catch a "see-you-soon" image of the asteroid 2024 PT5 as it ended its stint as Earth's second moon on Monday (Nov. 25).

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN · 1d

Earth Bids Goodbye to Its ‘Mini-Moon’ as Astronomers Investigate Where Our Planet’s Asteroid Companion Came From

Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins

BBC · 1d

Earth's mini 'second moon' is disappearing into space

The Earth's 'mini moon' is about to head off into space after being spotted near the planet in the last couple of months.

Yahoo · 1d

Earth To Temporarily Capture A 'Mini-Moon' - See An Orbit Animation

Earth captured asteroid 2024 PT5 back in September and expected to hold on to it till November according to Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos. See an orbit animation of the estimated 37 foot wide space rock from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

KXAN · 5h

Earth bids farewell to its temporary ‘mini moon’: What it was, and where it’s going

Currently, more than 2 million miles away, the object is too small and faint to see without a powerful telescope.

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Astronomers investigate the evolution of a supersoft X-ray source

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra spacecraft, German astronomers have observed a supersoft X-ray source ...

Physics World1h

Astronomers can play an important role in explaining the causes and consequences of climate change, says astrophysicist

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Science Daily2d

Astronomers may have discovered the answer to a mysterious stellar event

Researchers have made a record-breaking astrophysical discovery while simultaneously uncovering a possible explanation for the rare and extreme astrophysical event known as long-period radio ...

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Astronomers may have discovered the explanation for the longest-period radio transient ever detected

Researchers from the Curtin node of the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have made a record-breaking ...

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Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a dying star outside of Milky Way

But by using a newly-developed second-generation instruments of VLTI, astronomers were able to capture an image of WOH G64 ...

Live Science on MSN5d

Astronomers spot 1 of the most powerful 'sonic booms' in the universe as massive galaxy crashes into its neighbors

A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." ...

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Astronomers measure cosmic electrons at the highest energies to date

Five telescopes of the H.E.S.S.-collaboration in Namibia are used to study cosmic radiation, especially gamma radiation. With ...

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN5d

Astronomers Discover a ‘Newborn’ World, the Youngest Known Transiting Exoplanet

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

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Astronomers snap first up-close image of a star outside our galaxy

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...

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Novel supernova observations grant astronomers a peek into the cosmic past

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever observed.

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