A small asteroid was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The space rock is roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum and could be the smallest object discovered by the space telescope since it was launched into space at the end of 2021.
Though the James Webb Space Telescope has made headlines for discovering massive celestial objects as far away as billions of light-years, the new discovery demonstrates the powerful instrument’s unexpected utility much closer to home.
Even more impressive, the team that discovered the 330- to 660-foot (100- to 200-meter) asteroid used data collected to calibrate the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which was never designed to discover new asteroids.
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