This illustration depicts an asteroid that has been detected by a team of European astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. At 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length, it's roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum.
NASA's newest astrophysics observatory wasn't designed to look for small objects in our solar system, but scientists using its Mid-Infrared Instrument may have done just that.
James Webb Space Telescope just found an asteroid by total accident | Space
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) unexpectedly discovered a small asteroid. The space rock is around the size of the Colosseum in Rome and might well be the smallest object that the space telescope has spotted since it was sent into space at the end of 2021.
Though the James Webb Space Telescope has been making waves in astronomy by discovering massive celestial objects sometimes as far away as billions of light-years , the new finding demonstrates the powerful instrument's unpredicted usefulness much closer to home.
New asteroid photobombs Webb telescope | News | kq2.com
An artist's illustration depicts an irregularly shaped gray asteroid similar to the new object spotted by the Webb telescope.
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed its smallest cosmic object to date — a previously unknown asteroid about the size of the Colosseum in Rome.
Recent Asteroid Flyby Suggests 'Blind Spot' in Planetary Defense
A small asteroid was discovered recently, just days before it passed close to Earth. The object was never considered a real threat to our planet.
NASA and its international partners continuously search the skies for what scientists call near-Earth objects. Such objects include asteroids and comets that come within 50 million kilometers of Earth's orbit.
Teeny tiny photobomb! 📸 Scientists found a surprise while looking through test data from Webb's MIRI instrument. W… https://t.co/MdhRT6Uo8d NASAWebb (from Lagrange Point 2) Mon Feb 06 15:06:50 +0000 2023
🔠@NASAWebb detected a small asteroid roughly 100 meters wide and over 60,000 miles away! It is the smallest obser… https://t.co/P8lmtDh8c4 NASA_Marshall (from Huntsville, Alabama USA) Tue Feb 07 16:23:22 +0000 2023
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