Asteroid Spotted Passing in Front of Stunning Space Cloud

Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 17:10 in Astronomy & Space

An asteroid passing through our solar system appeared to fly across a star-forming nebula about 12,000 light-years away from Earth in a new infrared snapshot taken by a NASA space telescope.

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