While most of us accidentally drop stuff or step in puddles, Nasa’s James Webb telescope is doing just a little bit better. The enterprising space explorer has accidentally stumbled upon an asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum 🪐🔭
The asteroid measuring between 300 to 650 feet in length, was detected by an international team of European astronomers.
The researchers believe that more observations are needed to better characterize this object’s nature and properties.‘We — completely unexpectedly — detected a small asteroid in publicly available MIRI calibration observations,’ explained Thomas Müller, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany.
Nasa’s James Webb telescope accidentally stumbled upon an asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum ‘Our results show that even “failed” Webb observations can be scientifically useful, if you have the right mindset and a little bit of luck,’ elaborated Müller.
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