Here’s Our Best View Yet of Asteroid Kleopatra

216 Kleopatra
Asteroid Kleopatra from different angles. Credit:

The European Southern Observatory returns intriguing views of enigmatic asteroid 216 Kleopatra.

It’s not every day we get a new look at a distant world, let alone a strange misshapen asteroid. But that just what happened last week, when the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile released new images of asteroid 216 Kleopatra.

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