Best Space Images of 2020

The world came to stand still because of the pandemic but despite the COVID-19 outspread, the celestial events didn't take a break from bringing visual treats to stargazers.

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Asteroid Grab
NASA's Osiris-Rex performing a 'touch and go' maneuver with Asteroid Bennu.
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8. Asteroid Grab

NASA's Osiris-Rex performed a 'touch and go' maneuvre with the Asteroid Bennu in order to collect the samples of rock and soil. The asteroids like Bennu are the free-roaming building blocks of planet and could offer a lot of information about how worlds like earth came to being. The spacecraft was successful in collecting the samplebut it won't begin its journey back to Earth until March 2021.

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KristilaGurung Engineer, Astrophile. Sikkim-Chennai-Jalandar