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Team Unveils Hidden Population of Bus-Sized Asteroids Lurking in Solar System's Main Belt

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MIT researchers have identified 138 previously unknown asteroids in the main belt, all measuring less than a kilometer in diameter.

The discovery emerged from an innovative recycling of data initially collected for exoplanet research.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared capabilities combined with a “shift and stack” image processing technique, applied to thousands of images originally taken for studying the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system.

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