A toolbox lost in space shines brightly in a new photo taken in Rome. Two astronauts performing a spacewalk on the International Space Station harmlessly lost their toolbox during the spacewalk on November 1. Images taken by the Virtual Telescope Project on Wednesday, November 15 revealed a bright object visible with binoculars.

Project founder Gianluca Masi wrote in his statement next to the image, “The above image was taken from a single 2-second exposure.” “The object looks like a sharp point of light in the center because the telescope followed it, so the stars left long trails in the background.”

NASA astronauts Jasmine Mogbeli and Loral O’Hara were intricately replacing parts of a solar panel when a toolbox “accidentally went missing,” the agency said in a Nov. 1 statement.

“Flight controllers detected the toolbox using the station’s external cameras. Representatives of the agency wrote that the tools were not needed until the end of the spacewalk. “Flight management analyzed the bag’s trajectory and determined that the risk of re-contact with the station was low, the crew and the space station were safe, and no further action was required. He determined that it was not necessary.”

The toolbox will float around our planet for several months until tendrils of Earth’s atmosphere pull it back and it burns safely above the surface at an altitude of about 70 miles (113 kilometers). As of last week, the bag was about 258 miles (415 kilometers) above Earth.

The toolbox currently bears the US Space Force designation 58229/1998-067WC in the Artificial Object Cataloging System; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Jonathan McDowell (who also tracks space launches, landings and re-entry) shares with X.

NASA keeps a close eye on any space debris that forms into the mile-long “pizza box” shape around the space station; During its 24 years of operation, the orbital complex has gone off course about 40 times, but the agency uses a conservative threshold of 1 in 10,000 chances to ensure the safety of the crew.

As the number of launches and satellites in orbit continues to increase, the potential for space debris also increases. European Space Agency models suggest there could be around 130 million pieces of space debris larger than a millimeter in size. But traceable cosmic elements are much fewer.