Faint Threat | Space Wallpaper

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 13:20 in Astronomy & Space

The faint spot at the center of this space wallpaper from ESO's Very Large Telescope is the Near-Earth Object 2009 FD. It may look insignificant, but there was a possibility that this asteroid would collide with the Earth in the future.

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