Tomorrow night, backyard astronomers may catch a glimpse of an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier that will miss Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flies by. Although there’s no danger of the space rock accidentally hitting our planet, it marks the closest flyby of an asteroid this large since 1976, according to NASA. Read full article >>

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