"This way, it is easy to spot it against the stars in the background. "With this sequence, I wanted to share the motion of asteroid 2023 DZ2, at that time still safely approaching our planet," Masi told Newsweek. The near-Earth asteroid, known as 2023 DZ2, is thought to be 140 to 310 feet (40 to 95 meters) wide. When Masi took the images on March 22, 2023, DZ2 was located around 1.1 million miles away from our planet and was flying closer to us, getting brighter and brighter. A big asteroid will buzz Earth today (March 25), and you can watch the flyby live online. The image below was the first image that TIROS-1 returned, the first television picture of Earth from space. The images used to produce the time-lapse come from individual 30-second exposures taken remotely with one of the VTP's robotic telescopes. The first television picture of Earth from space Over its two-and-a-half-month lifespan, TIROS-1 returned 23,000 photos of the Earth, 19,000 of them usable for weather analysis. The giant radio telescope includes a field of 30 dish antennas all pointed skyward with each dish about 150. Its home to lots of different sea creatures and animals, including the humpback whale - its one of their breeding sites. The radio signal was captured by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope located in Pune, India. The 'Pale Blue Dot' picture of Planet Earth was acquired by the Voyager 1 probe exactly 30 years ago on Friday - from a distance of about 6 billion km (4 billion miles) miles. The VTP is a service provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Ceccano, Italy, that operates and provides access to robotic, remotely operated telescopes. It is the first time that scientists have detected a signal that originates from another galaxy located 9 billion light years away from Earth. The space rock-called 2023 DZ2-made a close approach to us on Saturday, flying past at a safe distance.Īs it approached, astronomer Gianluca Masi with The Virtual Telescope Project (VTP) captured a series of images of the asteroid, which he used to create the time-lapse. EARTH FROM SPACE: Like You've Never Seen Before DOCUMENTARY TUBE 1.54M subscribers Subscribe 12M views 7 years ago Showing cities all over the world from orbit from North America to India with a. A time-lapse video shows a 200-foot asteroid that had a "very close" encounter with Earth as it approached our planet.
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