ESO and NASA telescopes capture stunning aftermath of DART's asteroid impact.

Astronomers have analyzed the aftermath of the collision between NASA's DART spacecraft and the asteroid Dimorphos using ESO's Very Large Telescope. The ejected cloud was bluer than the asteroid itself before the impact, indicating that the cloud could be made of very fine particles. Another team studied how the DART impact altered the surface of the asteroid and found that the level of polarization suddenly dropped after the impact. The studies show the potential of the VLT when its different instruments work together.