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University of Hawaii astronomer helps capture NASA’s asteroid crash
Summary by Ground News
Astronomers on Earth, 7 million miles away, captured the DART mission's successful strike on the asteroid. Images reveal a spectacular outburst of debris rising from the asteroid after the collision. The celestial show was a bonus to the spacecraft's main objective of demonstrating a method for defending the planet from deadly space rocks in the future.