1,701 asteroid trails, including 1,031 previously uncatalogued, were discovered.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped discover 1,701 asteroid trails, with 1,031 previously uncatalogued, through a study using 37,000 archived images from 19 years. Researchers, in collaboration with 11,482 citizen-science volunteers, analyzed the images to reveal insights into the asteroid belt's formation and evolution. Many of the discovered asteroids were below 1 kilometer in size.

April 18, 2024
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