{"id":24582,"date":"2021-10-12T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=24582"},"modified":"2021-10-11T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T22:13:30","slug":"eso-vlt-images-42-of-the-largest-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=24582","title":{"rendered":"ESO: VLT images 42 of the largest asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest report from ESO (European Southern Observatory)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Meet the 42:
\nESO images some of the biggest asteroids in our Solar System<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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This image depicts 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Most of them are larger than 100 kilometres, with the two biggest asteroids being Ceres and Vesta, which are around 940 and 520 kilometres in diameter, and the two smallest ones being Urania and Ausonia, each only about 90 kilometres. The images of the asteroids have been captured with the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) in Chile, astronomers have imaged 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Never before had such a large group of asteroids been imaged so sharply. The observations reveal a wide range of peculiar shapes, from spherical to dog-bone, and are helping astronomers trace the origins of the asteroids in our Solar System.<\/p>\n