Maroc - IT-ONLINE.CO.ZA - A La Une - 24/12/2024 09:55

Webb reveals the smallest asteroids yet found

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now 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 […]