This image provides a size comparison of the asteroid Kleopatra with Chile. The top half of the image shows a computer model of Kleopatra, a “dog-bone” shaped asteroid which orbits the Sun in the ...

The most detailed telescope photographs yet of the asteroid Kleopatra — named after the ancient Egyptian queen — clearly show its weird “dog-bone” shape, and astronomers say their studies of it could ...

A team of astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope to observe the asteroid and have published their findings in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The asteroid is ...

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It’s true: 124 million miles (200 kilometers) might be a long way for your dog to fetch this cosmic bone. But thanks in part to two powerful telescopes, astronomers were able to inspect the dog-bone ...

Telescope photos show new details of the dog-bone shaped asteroid Kleopatra. It was originally discovered in 1880 is more than 125 million miles from Earth and weighs ...

Astronomers recently used the European Space Agency's Very Large Telescope to take what is now considered as the best images of the dog-boned shaped asteroid named Kleopatra. Franck Marchis, a senior ...

ESO (European Southern Observatory) revealed that the Kleopatra Asteroid has a very unusual appearance. The space agency decided to use the Very Large Telescope, which allowed the involved astronomers ...