Webb telescope has a new mission: surveillance of a threatening asteroid
The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...
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James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world
The difference matters in the case of impact The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to be pointed at asteroid 2024 YR4 to ...
Why NASA keeps changing the probability of an asteroid impacting Earth in 2032
Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...
Asteroid 2024 YR - How the powerful James Webb Space telescope is helping NASA monitor space rock
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
Asteroid 2024 YR₄: James Webb space telescope to determine the danger
In eight years' time, an asteroid dozens of meters in size could hit the Earth. One of our best instruments is now to ...
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In emergency decision, James Webb telescope will study 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 before its close approach to Earth
Humanity's most powerful space telescope is setting its sights on the most dangerous known asteroid in the solar system ...
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Asteroid hurtling toward Earth? Odds for impact keep increasing
NASA first discovered “2024 YR4,” the 130-to-300-foot-wide asteroid, in December 2024, and found it only had roughly a 1 ...