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Webb pushed past its limits to observe DART asteroid crash

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Webb pushed past its limits to observe DART asteroid crash

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The James Webb Space Telescope had to perform outside of its design limits to observe the collision of NASA’s DART probe with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September last year, NASA has revealed. 

Writing in a blog post, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope deputy project scientist Stefanie Milam, of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, revealed that scientists had to go to great lengths to enable the grand telescope to watch the historic space rock deflection test. 



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