James Webb Telescope and Hubble caught the moment when NASA's DART collides with an asteroid #shorts

Webb, Hubble Capture Detailed Views of DART Impact

Animation of of Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system after DART impact. This red-hued view from JWST shows a bright center and darker streaks radiating from it. Faint wisps appear to flow outward from the center over the course of the animation.
This animation, a timelapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, covers the time spanning just before impact at 7:14 p.m. EDT, Sept. 26, through 5 hours post-impact. Plumes of material from a compact core appear as wisps streaming away from where the impact took place. An area of rapid, extreme brightening is also visible in the animation.
Credits: Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, Cristina Thomas (Northern Arizona University), Ian Wong (NASA-GSFC); Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have captured views of a unique NASA experiment designed to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid in the world’s first-ever in-space test for planetary defense. 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, at 7:14 pm EDT, DART intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos. It was the world’s first test of the kinetic impact mitigation technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid that poses no threat to Earth, and modifying the object’s orbit. DART is a test for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards.

The coordinated Hubble and Webb observations are more than just an operational milestone for each telescope – there are also key science questions relating to the makeup and history of our solar system that researchers can explore when combining the capabilities of these observatories.

“Webb and Hubble show what we’ve always known to be true at NASA: We learn more when we work together,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “For the first time, Webb and Hubble have simultaneously captured imagery from the same target in the cosmos: an asteroid that was impacted by a spacecraft after a seven-million-mile journey. All of humanity eagerly awaits the discoveries to come from Webb, Hubble, and our ground-based telescopes – about the DART mission and beyond.”

Observations from Webb and Hubble together will allow scientists to gain knowledge about the nature of the surface of Dimorphos, how much material was ejected by the collision, and how fast it was ejected. Additionally, Webb and Hubble captured the impact in different wavelengths of light – Webb in infrared and Hubble in visible. Observing the impact across a wide array of wavelengths will reveal the distribution of particle sizes in the expanding dust cloud, helping to determine whether it threw off lots of big chunks or mostly fine dust. Combining this information, along with ground-based telescope observations, will help scientists to understand how effectively a kinetic impact can modify an asteroid’s orbit.

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[mikeericaful]

Let me get this straight. Dart filmed itself crashing into the moon. Hubble filmed dart hitting the moon and JWST also filmed Dart hitting the moon as well? Are these the three videos we’re seeing? TYIA.

[billyhndrsn]

Did it move the trajectory of the asteroid ?

[tfscoutpunch]

What is the asteroid in front of dimorphos?

[markcoleman]

JWST image looks off center. Was relative motion too fast for it to keep up, or did they lose a decimal place in the pointing software?

[manojsalve]

What type of explosive did the dart carry with it.

[dominiquemontgomery]

Am I the only one who sees multiple faces

[supremeclienteleautocare]

Have they found out if it changed its path?

[openclassics]

Don‘t let me down! Don’t go away!
Day after day we had come together in perfect Harmony. Now the fool is allone on the hill.
And blackbird’s world is spinning round…

[drawingmomentum]

Don't u mean this WAS nasa's space craft? I would imagine it's about dust by now. 😂

[aaroncharlessmith]

What purpose was dart sent in to the strike the asteroid! Was it to shunt it or just as an experiment! - I also take it the asteroids moon is no longer technically a moon but now it’s own object.

[mailoyndavis]

Do you think this was a good idea to do?

[TommyTripper]

Would be funny if we knocked it towards earth by mistake from a test to see if we are capable of knocking it away

[JayEmm]

Ain’t it funny how nothing has hit the damn telescope? How can it how catch the darts impact when it’s supposedly millions of light years away? Bruh it makes no sense

[sammymiller]

AND GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN'S AND THE EARTH.!!! PRAISE THE LORD AMEN AND AMEN!!!

[douglaswegener]

Why then can't they? Put a rover on the moon filming the earth? My who life the moon didn't spin then boom it spins. Show us 6t million a day ?? Show us

[Alathiabites]

NASA Breaking expensive toys just to see what it looks like from different perspectives. Sounds like a good way to spend money.

[Noneliness]

The planets are build perfectly and there can be a god who made us

[ShortbusRejects]

If you believe this grab a spoon I'm gonna shit rainbow sherbet...