NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt

NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.  A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed Webb’s observations of a distant star to reveal a population of small asteroids — smaller than astronomers had ever detected orbiting the Sun in the main […]
Posted on December 20, 2024
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