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The world’s largest digital camera started its hunt for potential asteroids that might put our planet earth in danger. Its not like the digital cameras you see in electronic stores, its much bigger than that. A new giant telescope designed to monitor the outer space for dangerous foreign objects. The new telescope has 1,400-megapixel camera with 1.4 billion pixels spread across 40 centimeters. “Although [...]

The Rosetta spacecraft has taken images for the first time of an asteroid in orbit more than 220 million miles away from Earth, according to the Daily telegraph the Rosetta spacecraft will try to land on the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko sometimes in 2015 in an attempt to study the celestial object’s chemistry. The image looked like diamond shaped asteroid known as Steins, these rare images will [...]