South Korea space agency shares Moon images after SpaceX rocket debris crash

The short, dramatic flash created when the rocket part hit the Moon would have been hard to catch by amateur astronomers even with high-end telescopes, but larger observatories - including Seoul's space agency - are analysing the information.While the impact did not pose any danger to Earth, Matt Bothwell, astronomer at the University of Cambridge, raised concerns about space debris."Space is getting more and more crowded," he said, as each year "we launch more stuff into space"."It could feasibly be within a few decades that it's actually quite hard to get past Earth's orbit because space is so crowded," Bothwell warned.This Falcon 9 was in orbit since January last year, when it blasted off from Florida.The same booster section from the January 2025 mission is due to set off on its 18th flight on 10 August. SpaceX says the mission hopes to launch 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.The rocket that blasted from Florida last January was carrying two lunar landers into space.