NASA Telescope Captures Epic Collision Between DART Probe and Asteroid Dimorphos

But on impact, the screen faded to black.

We couldn’t see just how big of a dent that DART made.

Fortunately, many telescopes around the world were tracking the asteroid pair known as Didymos and Dimorphos.

The ATLAS telescopes in Hawaii were focused onDidymos and Dimorphos during DART’s collision on Monday.

The time of impact was 4:14 p.m. PT.

It was a bang heard ‘round the world.

Not literally, of course.