Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile, showing an expanding, comet-like tail after the asteroid impact.
is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact.
This plume is accelerating away from the harmless asteroid, in large part, because of pressure on it from solar radiation, said Matthew Knight of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, who made the observation along with Lowell Observatory's Teddy Kareta using the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope.The James Webb Space Telescope captured DART's impact on Sept. 26. ; animation: Alyssa Pagan ).
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