Newly awakened, the NEOWISE cruise ship immediately spotted an asteroid that has long been hovering near the Earth but has never been detected.
The asteroid hunting spacecraft has been awakened after 2 years of hibernation in space, and has just returned to the first images of potential targets.
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is an infrared probe spacecraft launched by NASA on December 14, 2009.
Experts at NASA claimed they had counted nearly all of the celestial bodies that could endanger our planet.