l'Astrofilo gennaio-febbraio 2022

T his poster shows 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, loca- ted between Mars and Jupiter (orbits not to scale). The images in the outer- most circle of this infographic have been captured with the Spectro-Pola- rimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REse- arch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The asteroid sample features 39 objects larger than 100 kilometres in diameter, including 20 larger than 200 kilometres. [ESO/M. Kornmesser/Vernazza et al./ MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS)]