A truck-sized NASA space telescope is about to crash to Earth

Launched in November 2004, NASA's 3,200-pound Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere around November 4. After 22 years of detecting thousands of astrophysical phenomena and transforming scientific understanding, operations terminated on October 23. The truck-sized telescope will likely blaze across the sky on Wednesday at approximately 3:30AM ET. This fiery plunge follows a failed first-of-its-kind rescue mission intended to push the aging spacecraft back into a higher orbit to save it.