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6,000-Mile Debris Trail Spotted After NASA Spacecraft Smashes Into Asteroid

SPACE ODDITY

The SOAR Telescope in Chile captured arresting images of Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet recently used as a proving ground by DART.

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CTIO/NOIRLab/SOAR/NSF/AURA/T. Kareta (Lowell Observatory), M. Knight (U.S. Naval Academy)