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This Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Dimorphos was taken on December 19, 2022, nearly four months after the asteroid was hit by NASA's DART

This Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Dimorphos was taken on December 19, 2022, roughly four months after the asteroid impact, by NASA's DART

The popular 1954 rock song "Shake, Rattle and Roll," could be the theme music for the Hubble Space Telescope's latest discovery about what is happening to the asteroid Dimorphos in the aftermath of NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) experiment. DART intentionally impacted Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, slightly changing the trajectory of its orbit around the larger asteroid Didymos.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an intriguing sight of the asteroid Dimorphos in the aftermath of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) experiment.

2022 was a year of many satellites - whether we watched them, they watched us, or cast their cameras to space, there was plenty to see.

On September 26 of this year, the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft slammed into the moonlet/asteroid Dimorphos and vaporized itself into an expanding plume of atomized debris. Fifteen days prior, DART had released LICIAcube - the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids – which was hitchhiking along for the ride. However, LICIAcube wasn’t a…

The first images from the cubesat capturing the aftermath of the DART spacecraft asteroid impact have been received.

The first images of DARTs crash into asteroid Dimorphos show the impact kicked up a lot of debris.

NASA says DART’s planetary defense & asteroid collision test would help earth deflect an asteroid, should one ever happen in the future.