The asteroid Dimorphous, three months after it was hit by a spacecraft
NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA), and Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Last year, NASA smashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos. Now, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the resulting debris in stunning detail, revealing a glittering field of boulders. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) saw a 600-kilogram spacecraft impact Dimorphos, which circles a larger asteroid called Didymos, to see if it could alter the space rock's orbit as a practice run for diverting future dangerous asteroids. The mission was a success, reducing the length of Dimorphos's orbit by about 33 minutes following impact…