Nailed it! The SOAR Telescope in Chile, operated by , captured the more than 10,000 kilometers of trail left behind after 's DART spacecraft hit Dimorphos.
Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/SOAR/NSF/AURA/T. Kareta (Lowell Observatory), M. Knight (US Naval Academy)
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Check out this image release here:
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What an outstanding image! 🏆 Congratulations to the SOAR telescope team 👍
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The world is going to end! Reality is very clear, the world never going to end. "Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute." 19th century by Bahá’u’lláh -not by a science #science #whatupworld
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A similar observation of Didymos/Dimorphos from your sister telescope in Cerro Tololo in Chile - the 0.6 meter SARA-CT telescope , ~78 hours after impact.
Of course, with telescopes, size matters 🔭😇
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Last night, @SARA_Obs Chile: Didymos/Dimorphos dust trails. 7x5m tracked on asteroids, stars filtered. WNW trail extends to 165", projecting to ~8600 km. (0410-0500 UT 30 Sept., ~78 hours after impact, R band)
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Eu ainda acho que o pequeno satélite dele,com o qual a nave atingiu, está se desintegrando, talvez não tivesse um núcleo rochoso.