Asteroid Juno seen traveling through space in new ALMA images and animation
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
A series of images made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) provides an unprecedented view of the surface of Juno, one of the largest members of our solar system's main asteroid belt. Linked together into a brief animation, these high-resolution images show the asteroid rotating through space as it shines in millimeter-wavelength light.