The modular ‘fly-eye telescope’ to keep a lookout for potentially dangerous asteroids
Armageddon, Deep Impact and their ilk from silver screens have sufficiently demonstrated (albeit with a bit of cheesiness) how alien, undetected asteroids can threaten the very existence of earth-bound human kind. Now, we wouldn't have gone so far as to use the hyperbole - if scientists didn't have an answer for such a catastrophic scenario.…