India’s 1st fully robotic telescope captures image of ‘building-sized’ asteroid

The GROWTH-India telescope at the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Ladakh has captured a building-sized asteroid’s closest approach to Earth. The 0.7m wide-field telescope, part of a joint venture by IIT Bombay and Indian Institute of Astrophysics, tracked the asteroid’s rapid motion, making background stars look like streaks. The telescope specializes in time-domain astronomy.