Recent surveys have discovered several never-before-seen asteroids hiding the Sun's glare near Venus and other planets.
Astronomers say that a bunch of asteroids could hide in the Sun’s glare. These near-Earth asteroids would most likely be objects we’ve never detected, as most telescope systems look outward from our Solar System. Recent surveys have revealed never-before-seen asteroids hiding near Venus and other planets in our Solar System.Image source: lukszczepanski/Adobe
But that same bright glare could actually be hiding tons of near-Earth asteroids. These same kinds of asteroids often turn out to be potentially hazardous due to their size. “Asteroid surveys generally operate at night, mostly finding objects beyond Earth’s orbit,” Scott S. Sheppard writes in a paper published in the journal“This creates a blind spot because many near-Earth objects could be lurking in the sunlight interior to Earth’s orbit,” Sheppard continues.
Never-before-seen asteroids can pose a significant threat to Earth, and everyone who calls it home. Asteroids, if big enough, can cause significant damage to our planet. This could include taking out massive cities or even causing extinction-level events as we saw with the dinosaurs.
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