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Teeny tiny photobomb! 📸

Scientists found a surprise while looking through test data from Webb’s MIRI instrument. Webb serendipitously captured an asteroid (illustrated here) just 100-200 meters in length — likely its smallest object seen yet: https://go.nasa.gov/3Yt43Xm
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Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid

An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length — has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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in reply to NASA

Charles Randall
Charles Randall
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kind of sucks that you included an illustration and not the actual image (even if processed)?

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