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Dimorphos and boulders from Hubble

Dimorphos and boulders from Hubble
Dimorphos and boulders from Hubble This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows boulders that were ejected from the asteroid Dimorphos after the DART spacecraft slammed into it in September 2022. The bright object with a tail is Dimorphos, and the tiny white dots clustered around it are boulders ranging in size from 1 to 6.7 meters (3 to 22 feet) in diameter. NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA)