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Space junk: What happens when it crashes back to Earth?

Every week, some long-dead piece of space gimcrackery comes hurtling down from Earth's orbit -- an old piece of fuel tank, a fleck of paint. Most pieces of space junk burn up before we can have much fun with them. But one relatively small piece is set to make a spectacular return to Earth, re-igniting the conversation about what's gone up - and what's coming down.

Aldous_Snow3085d ago (Edited 3085d ago )

Probably sent enough shit up there to build a death star.

Would love to know how far the furthest piece of junk has travelled, but its impossible to know.

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James Webb Space Telescope finds 'extremely red' supermassive black hole growing

The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.

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NASA radar images show stadium-sized asteroid tumbling by Earth during flyby

The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).

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Radar images reveal damage on Europe's doomed ERS-2 satellite during final orbits

Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.