The stunning aftermath of 's mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid at 14,000mph has been caught on camera by two of the world's most powerful space telescopes.Hubble and the US space agency's new super space observatory, James Webb, both captured views of the first ever planetary defence experiment, which saw the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) attempt to knock a space rock off course.It was the world's first test of a kinetic impact mitigation technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid that poses no threat to Earth, and modifying the object's orbit.
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