More than one month after the Nasa’s DART mission slammed into Didymos‘ moonlet Dimorphos, we observed this binary asteroid, imaging the thin dusty tail it developed as a consequence of the impact. The image...
Three weeks after the Nasa’s DART mission slammed into Didymos‘ moonlet Dimorphos, we imaged this binary asteroid, capturing the thin dusty tail it developed as a consequence of the impact. The image above comes...
It is hard to comment the stunning experience we had last night: we saw in real-time, with our very own eyes, the effects of DART slamming into its target asteroid Didymos, making it much...
In just three weeks, we will see the NASA’s DART mission at work to test asteroid deflection by kinetic impactor. We imaged the target, the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos. The image above comes from...
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