Madrid
Updated:05/20/2022 03:56h
Save
Under the direction of Sandor Kruk of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, an international team of researchers has just found, hidden among discarded data from the Hubble Space Telescope, more than 1,000 asteroids whose existence we did not know until now. In an article recently published in ‘Astronomy & Astrophysics’, the team of astronomers details how, by analyzing the discards accumulated by Hubble in the last 20 years, they found more than 1,700 asteroid tracks. Many of them were previously known, but more than 1,000 turned out to be totally new.
As the years go by, more and more telescopes carry out more and more observations, filling up data files that literally no one has time to analyze.