Astronomy Picture of the Day
A new image of the universe every day, chosen by NASA
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Near-Earth Objects This Week
Asteroids passing close to Earth over the next seven days
Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets whose orbits bring them close to our planet. Almost all of these passes are at distances of many times the Moon’s distance and pose no danger. The Moon is about 239,000 miles away, shown below as one “lunar distance”.
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