Asteroid tracking organization B612 Foundation recently released a really cool visualization showing observable asteroids as they hit Earth’s surface over the last 13 years.

B612, which refers to itself as a sort of planetary defense unit, used data collected from a global nuclear weapons test network to create the visualization. The network was intended to track instances of nuclear explosions and such, but as you can see in the video embedded below, of the 26 massive explosions the network picked up, all were actually asteroid impacts — meaning there are more asteroids hitting the planet than we realize.

Image: http://venturebeat.com - B612 Foundation