Astronomers find the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt
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MIT astronomers developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. They identified 138 new asteroids, 10 to 100 meters in size, the smallest ever detected in this region. This breakthrough improves tracking of near-Earth objects by spotting previously undetectable asteroids. The technique processes thousands of telescope images using powerful GPUs to reveal faint objects.
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