Our new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky! ☄️
Meet Flyeye — the telescope that sees space like a fly! 🪰
With its very first glimpse of the sky, Flyeye is ready to begin scanning for asteroids that might one day come a little too close to Earth.
Inspired by the compound eye of a fly, it can spot a huge chunk of sky in one go — more than 200 times the area of the full Moon. And it’s designed to do it all automatically, night after night.
It hasn’t found any space rocks yet, but it’s only just opened its eye. This is the first step towards a future network of fly-eyed telescopes keeping watch over our planet.
Not bad for a bug-inspired bit of space tech.
📹 European Space Agency (ESA)
📸 ESA/A. Baker
#ESA #Space #Asteroid
I need one to find mosquitos while sleeping 😭
Vera Rubin found 900+ new asteroids on its first day. What are you hopping to find being so inferior ?
It finds asteroids better than Vera Rubin's telescope?
Cool telescope! Best of luck and good hunting!
Yeah, but does Flyeye rub its legs and clean itself? Didn't think so 😤
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Can i please get a flyeye for my birthday🎉🎉
Ah didn't they just find one few days ago.
I worry about America's future in Space technology now that Trump has fired 1,500 employees,some who are working on the Nancy Grace Space telescope. He has no vision for NASA's future and if he does it's primitive at best.
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