The Spaceguard Centre & Observatory

MYSTERY MOON FLASHES CAUSED BY METEORITE IMPACTS

For hundreds of years, people have seen tiny flashes of light on the surface of the Moon. Very brief, but bright enough to be seen from Earth, these odd flashes still hadn’t been adequately explained up until now.

VESTA LIKELY COLD AND DARK ENOUGH FOR ICE

Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions of years, according to the first published models of Vesta's average global temperatures and illumination by the sun.

CATCHING A COMET DEATH ON CAMERA

On July 6, 2011, a comet was caught doing something never seen before: die a scorching death as it flew too close to the sun.