NASA has released an awe-inspiring image of its pioneering asteroid hunter Deep Space 1 space probe 2.3 million miles (3.7 million km) from Earth.
Day 2020. The photograph was taken using the 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain by Jet Propulsion Laboratory astronomers.The US-based space agency wrote in an accompanying caption:"Tracing a path against the constellation Gemini."This image was obtained on November 16, 1998, 23 days after the spacecraft's launch from Cape Canaveral."The spacecraft, just 4.9ft high, was four million times dimmer than the faintest star visible to the unaided eye.
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