This new asteroid hunting method is revealing never-seen-before space rocks around Earth

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Collecting data about asteroids that roam around the Earth is extremely important. This data enables scientists to prepare risk assessment models and know whether the Earth is going to get struck by an asteroid in the near future or not. And that is why space agencies like NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and others monitor more than 29,000 near-Earth objects (NEO). However, there is one problem. All these asteroids were discovered by observing the night sky. Which means the daytime gets zero observation and half the asteroids around the Earth have never been identified. But now, Pan-STARRS observatory is bringing a new method of asteroid hunting to the table.

The Earth has witnessed situations where an asteroid was spotted mere hours before it made its closest approach to the Earth. If these had crashed on Earth, there would have been a catastrophe. In March 2022, a small asteroid named 2022 EB5 exploded in the sky near Norway and scientists were only able to notice it 2 hours earlier. Thankfully, it was a small one. This happens mainly because the Sun glare makes it impossible to observe any asteroid during the daytime. But this also makes the Earth very vulnerable and exposed to asteroids that may appear from the wrong side and cause a massive disaster. Ideally, if astronomers find out about these asteroids on time, space agencies like NASA can try and deflect or destroy these before they crash on Earth.

“When you take an image, your background is much brighter, so an object doesn't stand out as easily when you have a really high noisy background,” Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, told The Verge, explaining the role the Sun plays in