This is the very first time humans have ever intentionally collided a spacecraft with an asteroid
The spectacular moment NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) craft smashed into a distant asteroid has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble Space Telescope — and the footage is incredible. The DART spacecraft smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, which is 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth, at 7:14 p.m. ET on Monday (Sept. 26), marking humanity's first attempt to test its planetary defense system by altering an asteroid's trajectory. The JWST studied the collision over a timeframe of roughly five hours, snapping 10 images, while Hubble captured 45 images of the moments immediately before and after the impact. Stitched together, the pictures show wispy plumes of material suddenly spiking out from Dimorphos after the DART crash, with the asteroid becoming three times as bright for eight hours following the event. Related: Watch NASA's DART spacecraft hit 'bullseye' by smashing into an asteroid "We've been looking forward to the DART impact for over 17 years, and it's so exciting to see it through the eyes of the greatest space observatories Webb and Hubble. These images provide us with clues of what happened in the first…