OW36: Orbital Rocks

If your idea of “fun” is orbiting rocks and reused rockets. First up, we’ve got the Moon auditioning for a horror flick, donning a blood-red filter courtesy of Earth’s shadow on September 7. Not satisfied? Cue the telescopes and the inevitable ads: “Buy now, see Luna in Technicolor™! Terms and conditions apply.”

Then there’s asteroid QD8, minding its business, zooming by thrice the distance to the Moon, and we don’t even send it a text to say “Hi.” But hey, at least someone streamed it live. Thanks, Virtual Telescope Project, because we all needed real-time footage of a 200,000-km close shave.

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