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  • NASA’s Orbiting Telescopes Capture DART Impact

    NASA’s Orbiting Telescopes Capture DART Impact

    Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope captured views of a spacecraft smashing into a small asteroid in an experiment to deflect asteroids. These observations of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact mark the first time that Webb and Hubble simultaneously observed the same celestial target. On Sept. 26, 2022,…