The world now has stunning new photos of this week's asteroid strike, the first planetary defense test of its kind.
NASA on Thursday released pictures of the dramatic event taken by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes.into the harmless space rock, 7 million miles from Earth, in hopes of altering its orbit.
“This is an unprecedented view of an unprecedented event,” Johns Hopkins University planetary astronomer and mission leader Andy Rivkin said in a statement. The brightness of this double asteroid system - the 525-foot Dimorphos is actually the moonlet around a bigger asteroid - tripled after the impact as seen in the Hubble images, according to NASA.
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