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 […]
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Asteroids, Ames Research Center, Ames Research Center's Science Directorate, General, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Missions, NASA Centers & Facilities, The Solar System
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December 20, 2024
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