NASA’s Webb Telescope To Study Asteroid 2024 YR4 As Impact …
18 小时之前 · NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of striking Earth in 2032. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...
James Webb Space Telescope will study asteroid 2024 YR4
5 天之前 · Why is asteroid 2024 YR4 important? Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on 27 December 2024. As of 10 February 2025, it has an approximately 98% chance of safely passing Earth on 22 December 2032. Astronomers are working to reduce our uncertainty about the asteroid’s orbit and rule out any impact risk, but it will fade from view from Earth in a few months’ time, and a small chance of impact ...
Asteroid watch gets boost from James Webb Space Telescope
2 天之前 · The asteroid is moving away from Earth now on its orbital path, so a larger telescope like Webb can help narrow down the asteroid's true trajectory. The Webb telescope, launched in 2021 as an ...
What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in ... - Space.com
16 小时之前 · Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Skip to main content. ... The James Webb Space Telescope ...
Webb telescope has a new mission. It's watching a hazardous asteroid …
3 天之前 · Scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope to observe asteroid 2024 yr4, a near-Earth object that has a low chance of hitting Earth in 2032. ... Rivkin is leading the Webb observation of ...
In emergency decision, James Webb telescope will study 'city …
5 天之前 · In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 YR4 twice over the next few months. The asteroid has a ...
Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth go up as Webb telescope is
4 天之前 · An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope To Scan Asteroid Threatening To Hit …
3 天之前 · The European Space Agency confirms that the James Webb Space Telescope – humanity’s most powerful eye on the cosmos – will soon turn to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, the space rock with a small ...
Physicists Tap James Web Space Telescope to Track New …
1 天前 · The JWST technology will soon be the only telescope capable of tracking the space rock as it moves away from Earth before coming back. The new study used the JWST, the best-ever telescope in the infrared, on images of TRAPPIST-1, a star studied to search for signs of atmospheres around its seven terrestrial planets and located about 40 light ...
James Webb telescope to study asteroid that could hit Earth
3 天之前 · NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is being tapped to study an asteroid with a one-in-43 chance of colliding with Earth. On the slim chance it hits, experts say the impact could level a city or ...