2021 January 31 - Asteroids in the Distance
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 2021-01-31

In today's image, we see an image showing the trail produce by an asteroid as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Asteroids are known to strike Earth every day, but large ones that can cause significant damage and even mass extinctions will occur only rarely. It is fortunately many millions of years between extinction level events!

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