The Hubble Space Telescope has just captured a movie of a tiny asteroid as it darts around the distant reaches of our solar system. This asteroid, designated 2019 LF6, is only about 300 meters in diameter, making it one of the smallest asteroids ever observed by Hubble. The movie is composed of 24 images taken over a period of three hours on June 29, 2019, and shows the asteroid quickly moving through the night sky. The images were taken while Hubble was pointed at a star cluster in the constellation of Hercules.

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source: Phys.org