James Webb Space Telescope will study asteroid 2024 YR4
2 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 …
Webb telescope has a new mission. It's watching a hazardous asteroid …
23 小时之前 · 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 …
Asteroid's odds of hitting Earth go up as Webb telescope is
2 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. …
In emergency decision, James Webb telescope will study 'city …
3 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 …
James Webb telescope to study asteroid that could hit Earth
16 小时之前 · 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 …
James Webb to join observations of asteroid that could strike …
1 天前 · The James Webb Space Telescope will be helping to track asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032.
NASA’s Webb Telescope To Scan Asteroid Threatening To Hit …
1 天前 · 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, …
NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid …
2024年12月20日 · A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed Webb’s observations of a distant star to reveal a population of small …
The world's largest space telescope just got an unexpected new …
2024年12月18日 · NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a remarkable machine capable of many wondrous things: It can peer at galaxies that formed just after the Big Bang, …
Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More
2023年5月8日 · Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen …