Asteroid (4179) Toutatis passes the Earth Wall Art including Frame Phone case This is the first high-resolution

This is the first high-resolution

and the total mass of gas and dust clouds is that of about 140 000 Suns

Close to the centre of the image

What makes this nebula shine is the bright blue star seen to the right of the central cloud

The optical phenomenon is a result of moonlight interacting with millions of ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere

Asteroid (4179) Toutatis passes the Earth Wall Art including Frame Phone case This is the first high-resolutionThe asteroid (4179) Toutatis, as photographed with the FORS1 multimode instrument at the 8. 2 m VLT Kueyen telescope at the ESO Paranal Observatory. At the time of these exposures, the asteroid was about 1,640,000 km from the Earth and moving rapidly across the sky in the southern constellation Ara (The Altar). The exposure time was 5 min while the telescope was following the normal diurnal motion; the stars now appear as points of light, while the