NASA’s James Webb and Hubble space telescopes watched Monday’s strike on an asteroid. The Dart spacecraft slammed into the Dimorphos asteroid at a speed of 14,000 to see if the asteroid could be knocked off its course towards Earth.
WATCH: NASA telescopes capture views of asteroid strike
An illustration depicts NASA's DART probe, foreground right, and Italian Space Agency's (ASI) LICIACube, bottom right, before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)