this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2026
18 points (100.0% liked)

Science

16101 readers
1 users here now

Studies, research findings, and interesting tidbits from the ever-expanding scientific world.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
alyaza@beehaw.org
Gaywallet@beehaw.org
remington@beehaw.org
18
This is the surface of Ryugu, an asteroid over 240M kilometers away from Earth. #space (storage.science.social)
submitted 2 weeks ago by admin@science.social to c/science@beehaw.org
1 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

This is the surface of Ryugu, an asteroid over 240M kilometers away from Earth. #space

@Space@lemmy.science.social @science@beehaw.org @science@lemmy.world @space@beehaw.org @space@lemmy.world @science@newsmast.community @space@newsmast.community @space@lemmy.ml #space #science #nasa #astronomy

top 1 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] orhtej2@eviltoast.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

As photographed by Hayabusa2

In June 2018, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 arrived at the asteroid.[12] After making measurements and taking samples, Hayabusa2 left Ryugu for Earth in November 2019

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu