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Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 2 Asteroid 4 Vesta reaches opposition at 2 A.M. EDT this ...
The interior of asteroid Vesta has been shown not to be a protoplanet after all, meaning that new explanations for its origin ...
Wausau Pilot & Review Stargazers in central Wisconsin have plenty of celestial sights to enjoy this week, including bright ...
Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...
Until now, it has been assumed that Vesta is a protoplanet and has a core. This is contradicted by measurement data that ...
Asteroid Vesta, long considered a stalled protoplanet, may actually be a massive fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New findings based on gravity-field mapping and ...
Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.
The night sky in May is filled with exciting celestial events, from dazzling shooting stars to eye-catching encounters ...
For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust ...
Less than 10 degrees (about a fist's width at arm's length) to the upper right of Zubeneschamali you will find Vesta, in close proximity to the faint magnitude +4.5 star 16 Librae. Vesta has a ...