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    A bright fireball – popularly known as a ‘shooting star’ – was spotted over the Netherlands and Belgium on 21 September at 21:00 CEST (19:00 GMT). 05 October 2017 Shooting star 3137 Votes: 70
    On 1 September 2017, at 12:05 GMT (14:05 CEST), the rocky near-Earth asteroid 3122 Florence made a relatively close approach to Earth, passing by at 7 060 160 km, or about 18.4 lunar distances. 04 September 2017 3122 Florence 1469 Votes: 23
    A small asteroid flying past Earth on 12 October will provide scientists with a valuable opportunity to learn more about its orbit and composition. 10 August 2017 Asteroid 2012 TC4 will fly past Earth in October 2017 17989 Votes: 214
    21 June 2017 Looking at Earth from an Asteroid 401 Votes: 8
    Trail of the Chelyabinsk asteroid crossing Russian skies on 15 February 2013 21 June 2017 Chelyabinsk Asteroid 547 Votes: 7
    24 May 2017 Lunar impact flash 252 Votes: 1
    Concept for ESA's future space debris surveillance system employing ground-based optical, radar and laser technology as well as in-orbit survey instruments. 26 April 2017 Surveillance network 10 Votes: 0
    ESA’s optical ground station on Tenerife helps research and survey space debris and is one of the world’s top-ranked instruments used for debris research 13 April 2017 Eye on debris 2229 Votes: 59
    ESA is developing an automated telescope for nightly sky surveys. This telescope is the first in a future network that would completely scan the sky and automatically identify possible new near-Earth objects, or NEOs, for follow up and later checking by human researchers. 14 February 2017 Flyeye Observatory 750 Votes: 10
    In ESA's Flyeye telescope, a single mirror of 1 m equivalent aperture collects the light from the entire 6.7° x 6.7° field of view and feeds a pyramid-shaped beam splitter with 16 facets. The complete field of view is then imaged by 16 separate cameras that contain 16 detectors. The tubes contain a set of secondary lenses. 14 February 2017 Flyeye telescope 294 Votes: 1
    CFHT 2003 precovery image of 2016 WJ1: the asteroid appears a faint spot between two bright stars 10 January 2017 Asteroid 2016 WJ1 418 Votes: 7
    The 1.5 m-diameter telescope of the Catalina Sky Survey, seen in twilight 10 January 2017 Looking up 278 Votes: 0
    A dramatic panorama shows a colourful, shimmering auroral curtain reflected in a placid Icelandic lake on 18 March 2015 near Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon in southern Iceland 15 November 2016 Aurora over Icelandic lake 528 Votes: 4
    As part of the global effort to hunt out risky celestial objects such as asteroids and comets, ESA is developing an automated 'Fly-eye' telescope for nightly NEO sky surveys 27 October 2016 Fly-eye telescope 881 Votes: 5
    ESA astronaut Tim Peake took this photo from inside the ISS Cupola in April 2016, showing a 7 mm-diameter circular chip gouged out by the impact from a tiny piece of space debris 12 May 2016 Impact chip 68810 Votes: 225
    The OASI Observatory team (Brazil) led by Daniela Lazzaro and with Sergio Silva obtained astounding images following ExoMars launch 17 March 2016 Spotted in space 13751 Votes: 134

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