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NASA’s DART asteroid impact probe spots the bright star Vega

In a bid to figure out light scattering, NASA’s asteroid-smashing mission did a bit of star-spotting while cruising to its destination.

The agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, also known as DART, took an image of the bright star Vega on May 27, NASA said in a statement (opens in new tab) Friday (June 17). DART, launched on Nov. 24, 2021,  is on a 10-month-long journey to a binary asteroid system called Didymos.

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