Webb pushed past its limits to observe DART asteroid crash
The James Webb Space Telescope had to perform outside of its design limits to observe the collision of NASA's DART probe with asteroid moonlet Dimorphos last year.
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The James Webb Space Telescope had to perform outside of its design limits to observe the collision of NASA's DART probe with asteroid moonlet Dimorphos last year.
There were fears that the massive asteroid 367789 (2011 AG5) could potentially impact the Earth between 2040 and 2047, but later NASA calculations found it unlikely.
New research found that the rubble-pile asteroid Itokawa is almost as old as the solar system itself and can survive collisions for 10 times longer than its conventional, single-body counterparts.
First detected just days ago, 2023 BU will approach within 2,200 miles of our planet’s surface before moving on.
A radar system less powerful than a household microwave has captured the highest-resolution pictures of the Moon ever captured from Earth.