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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

While many are focusing on the whistleblower complaint against President Trump that was

made public yesterday, NASA is responding to an issue that is celestial but could become

terrestrial.

The space agency is moving forward with plans to launch a telescope that could detect

asteroids on a collision course with Earth.

Why is such a telescope essential?

The day before President Trump's now famous conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,

an asteroid named 2019 OK, passed our planet.

However, internal emails from NASA released this week show that the space agency

was unaware of the asteroid's presence until the last moment it passed us. The football field-sized

rock was described as a city killer. It passed our planet at a distance of just 48,000 miles,

traveling at 55,000 miles an hour. If it had struck us, one professor says

it would have hit with over 30 times the energy of the atomic blast at Hiroshima. NASA administrator

Jim Bridenstein recently testified that an asteroid strike is perhaps Earth's biggest threat. There are

approximately 18,000 known near-earth

objects, and the number is constantly growing. We don't need to look to the heavens to find

evidence for the frailty of life on Earth. The New York Times reports that a man trained by

Hezbollah allegedly scouted Times Square as a

target. Prosecutors say the individual spent years studying airports, tunnels, and bridges,

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