Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo of a two-headed asteroid 62 million miles away (www.space.com)

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[-] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

I knew all those space photos were fake! You can see the strings holding them up!

For real though, its crazy how we can get messages and pictures back from SUCH a far away distance. Fuck yeah science!

[-] becausechemistry@piefed.social 4 points 1 hour ago

These double-lobed asteroids always look so cool. Like, not that long ago if this image was in a science fiction movie I would have said ehhhh unlikely but here we are looking at them

[-] comador@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago

Yeah, I feel the same way. Atari, Star Wars and Star Trek kind of ruined several generations with ideas of smooth shaped asteroids with rounded impact craters.