Look at this spectacular whirlwind of trash that surrounded our planet

Beautifully and very much, until you wonder what it is

What a tiny point gracefully circling around the Earth? Hints of distant stars? The gaseous remnants of some distant nebula? No: it's just a giant swarm of debris orbiting the planet.

NASA created a 3D-visualization, showing how the space junk orbiting Earth. Beautiful, is not it? Highly. As long as you do not realize what it is.

Division of NASA's tracking of artificial space objects discovered that the Earth flies 21,000 objects larger than ten cm, and about half a million objects ranging in size from one to ten cm. And pieces of debris less than a centimeter estimated by NASA in the near space of about 100 million. This can be anything from specially ejected from spacecraft parts to trim satellites issued from paint chips.

via factroom.ru