Science / Space

Scientists find asteroid hidden by sun

08:45 am on 3 November 2022

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Your mum might have told you not to look into the sun because it could send you blind - good advice.

The sun's brightness can also make large objects close to it difficult to spot.

A team of astronomers at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC borrowed a specialised camera to see if it would give them a glimpse of objects ordinarily hidden by the sun's rays - and they found something big.

Really big.

Carnegie's Earth and Planets Laboratory astronomer Scott Sheppard spoke to Morning Report.