SOAR Telescope catches Dimorphos's expanding comet-like tail after DART impact

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2022

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos, on Monday 26 September 2022. This was the first planetary defense test in which an impact of a spacecraft attempted to modify the orbit of an asteroid. Two days after DART's impact, astronomers Teddy Kareta (Lowell Observatory) and M