Asteroid caught marching across Tadpole Nebula
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 22:30
in Astronomy & Space
A new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth. As WISE scanned the sky, it happened to catch an asteroid in our solar system passing by.