NASA captures image of ‘apocalypse asteroid’ that could strike Earth

The US space agency snapped the image of 500metre-wide Bennu using its spacecraft OSIRIS-Rex during its orbit of the space rock.

The 1,600ft rock – situated between Earth and Mars – weighs 87 million tonnes and is currently orbiting the sun.

In the snap, Bennu can be seen looming on the right, while Earth and the moon are glowing in the bottom-left corner.

OSIRIS-Rex started orbiting Bennu late last year and is set to land on it in a sample-collecting mission in 2020.

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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/753130/nasa-asteroid-bennu-photo-space-mission-planetary-defence

Celebrity film star dog CLONED in China after owner feared loss of income

Juice, who was rescued from the streets, earns huge sums as a hugely-popular actor canine in the Far East country.

And fearing a loss of wages if Juice died, his owner has taken the extraordinary decision to clone the animal.

Animal trainer He Jun has reportedly forked out $50,000 to have the cross-breed cloned at a state-of-the-art laboratory.

He said: “Juice himself is a piece of intellectual property with social influence

Sinogene – China’s first bio-tech company to clone pets – successfully copied the celebrity dog using skin samples from his lower abdomen.

From this, Juice’s DNA was isolated and used to fertilise an egg, which was then placed in a surrogate dog.

The clone – dubbed “Little Juice” – was born three months ago and lived with its surrogate for a month at the lab.

The dog is now living with He and Juice, with He predicting the animal could be “even better” than its parent clone one day.

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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/753111/china-celebrity-dog-juice-cloned-cloning-experiment-pets

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