A new image captured by a telescope in Chile looks at first glance like a dazzling comet streaking across the night sky. It’s actually the debris plume created when NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid.
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. At first glance, a new image captured by a telescope in Chile looks like a dazzling comet streaking across the night sky, followed by a long, glowing tail. Instead, it’s the debris plume created when NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos.
And LICIACube, an Italian CubeSat that followed behind the DART mission, has begun to send back images taken from its stunning perspective just a short distance away when the impact occurred. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test deliberately crashed into Dimorphos, an asteroid moonlet orbiting the larger space rock Didymos, to see whether a spacecraft can change the motion of a celestial body in space.
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