Zoom in / The artist’s illustration exhibits the ejection of a cloud of particles after NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos. ESO/M. Kornmesser Final September, the Double Asteroid Redirect Check, or DART, crashed a spacecraft right into a small binary asteroid known as Dimorphos, efficiently altering its orbit round a bigger companion. Now we’re studying extra in regards to the aftermath of that collision, thanks to 2 new papers reporting knowledge collected by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Massive Telescope. The primary, printed within the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, examined particles from the collision to study extra in regards to the asteroid’s composition. The second, printed in Astrophysical…