Babe, wake up... new DART images just dropped.
"Observing the impact with Webb presented the flight operations, planning, and science teams with very unique challenges," the ESA wrote. "Because of the asteroid’s speed of travel across the sky, the teams worked in the weeks leading up to the impact to enable and test a method of tracking asteroids moving over three times faster than the original speed limit set for Webb.
"In the Hubble images, astronomers estimate that the brightness of [the asteroid pair] Didymos increased by three times following the impact," the post notes, "and are also particularly intrigued by how that brightness then held steady, even eight hours after impact." Everything about these time-lapsed views of the DART mission is groundbreaking, from the success of NASA's asteroid-smashing craft itself to the first-of-its-kind comparisons of the same event captured by both Webb and Hubble.
As always, these peeks into deep space not only remind us of the incredible potential for human ingenuity, but also that we are, quite literally, living in the future.
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