Astronomers Catch a "Dark Comet" Red-Handed

Astronomers Catch a "Dark Comet" Red-Handed
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/HrBmEFN)

Our ability to track and visualize small rocks in space is still improving. And occasionally we’ll find a space rock that will remind us of that fact. One such rock is detailed in a new paper, led by Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and recently published in Nature Astronomy, where the research team discovered what they thought was a normal, run of the mill asteroid, was actually a “dark comet”.

July 22, 2026 at 12:40AM
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