Didymos & Dimorphos - Canada News Beep

Two side-by-side black and white images of the Didymos asteroid system taken 20 seconds apart. Left: Didymos is a bright rounded object, in the upper left third of the image. It is brightly lit from below. Underneath and to the right, the much smaller asteroid Dimorphos is a small, gray dot with a plume of light, radial streaks bursting out from its left half. Right: Twenty seconds later, Didymos has rotated so its right half is more in shadow and its lower left half is brightly lit, as though a light bulb sits on its surface. Dimorphos and Didymos have moved relative to each other, so now Dimorphos is to the right of Didymos, but still below it. The ejected plume has expanded further out into space.

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