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There may be tens of BILLIONS of small (10 - 100 meter) asteroids out in the main belt past Mars, but they're too small to be seen from with our telescopes… until now.
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There may be tens of BILLIONS of small (10 - 100 meter) asteroids out in the main belt past Mars, but they're too small to be seen from with our telescopes… until now. Astronomers used JWST data in a unique way to find over 130 of them!
Hundreds of small asteroids found in the main belt using JWST
Astronomers used a new technique to find the building-sized rocks, the smallest ever seen at that distance
Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)
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