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Smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected found hiding in JWST data
Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system's main belt, down to the ...
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The Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected Could Be a Game-Changer for Planetary Defense
In images originally intended to study the TRAPPIST-1 star system ... marking the smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected. “We thought we would just detect a few new objects, but we detected ...
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James Webb Space Telescope finds smallest asteroids ever seen between Mars and Jupiter
By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt between ...
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Smallest ever: Bus to stadium-sized asteroids spotted near Mars-Jupiter belt
These asteroids, ranging from the size of a bus to a stadium, are the smallest ever detected in this region ... of Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1, some of which are in ...
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James Webb Space Telescope explores monster star supercluster Westerlund 1 (image)
"We pushed our detection limit down to the brown dwarfs of the cluster, which are the smallest stars that can form!" Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a deep drive into ...