🤚🛑 STOP: 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid crossing! ⁣ ⁣ You’re looking at a real image of asteroid Bennu captured from NASASolarSystem’s #OSIRISRex spacecraft. After nearly five years in space, the OSIRIS-Rex mission is on its way back to Earth with a sample of rocks and dust from the ancient cosmic object. ⁣ ⁣ In 2023, the samples will arrive back at our home planet where they’ll be transported to NASAJohnson and distributed to laboratories worldwide, enabling scientists to study the formation of our solar system and Earth as a habitable planet. ⁣ ⁣ We’ll set 75% of the sample aside for future generations to study with technologies not invented yet!⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA ⁣ ⁣ #AncientHistory #UniverseToday #NASA #Cosmos #RocksOfInstagram