The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact.
This image made available by NOIRLab shows a plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA's DART spacecraft after it impacted on Sept. 26, 2022, captured by the U.S. National Science Foundation's NOIRLab's SOAR telescope in Chile. The expanding, comet-like tail is more than 6,000 miles long. –
The image shows an expanding, comet-like tail more than 6,000 miles long, consisting of dust and other material spewed from the impact crater. Scientists expect the tail to get even longer and disperse even more, becoming so tenuous at one point that it's undetectable. More observations are planned to determine how much and what kind of material was hurled from the 525-foot Dimorphos, a moonlet of a larger asteroid.
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