A small near-Earth asteroid designated 2020 SW made its closest approach to Earth today at 7:12 a.m. EDT (4:12 a.m. PDT) at a distance of about 22,000 km (13,000 miles).
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READ MORENew images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory show small knots of metal-rich debris in the remnant of Kepler’s supernova, also known as SN 1604, are moving up to 37 million km per hour (23 million mph). These are extremely high speeds for an explosion that happened over 400 years ago as seen from Earth.
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READ MOREAn unprecedented signal from unevenly sized objects gives astronomers rare insight into how black holes spin.
READ MORENASA held an online conference to talk about TAG, an upcoming event under the OSIRIS-REx mission.
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