A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that somehow fused together.
Cosmic Conjoined Twins, Caught on Camera
Originally reported by New York Times. Read the full story at the original source.
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