Unlike NASA, Spaceguard UK relies on its charity shop and donations left in collection pots.
Spaceguard monitors the tracks of asteroids. Picture: Spaceguardlast week's DART mission
"It is not just science it's defence. This was the first official defence test aimed at deflecting a near earth object off its course. Very few of the billions of asteroids and comets orbiting our Sun are potentially hazardous to Earth, and, for at least the next century, no known asteroid threatens our planet.
The centre has the biggest telescope in Wales but Mr Tate casts envious eyes at the multiplying budgets of his space colleagues across the pond.
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