'Dog Bone' asteroid & its moons captured by Very Large Telescope

Asteroid Kleopatra and its two moons, AlexHelios and CleoSelene, were captured by the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. Credit: Space.com | imagery & animation: ESO/Vernazza, Marchis et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS)/M. Kornmesser/spaceengine.org | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)