Asteroid 2024 YR4 observed with ESO’s Very Large Telescope

Image of the asteroid 2024 YR4 taken by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). It shows a frame of the asteroid’s path through the night sky in January 2025, observed at infrared wavelengths with the HAWK-I instrument. These early observations contributed to increasing the odds of an impact on 22 December 2032 above 1%. However, thanks to newer data the odds have dropped to nearly zero.