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But the camera will, of course, cease operations when it slams into Dimorphos at a speed of 4.1 miles per second . But the Rome-based Virtual Telescope Project hopes to livestream the immediate aftermath of the DART impact in real-time with ground-based telescopes.
Because the Virtual Telescope Project's own telescopes aren't ideally positioned to view the impact, the organization has partnered with two South African observatories: Klein Karoo Observatory, operated by amateur astronomer Berto Monard, and the Mahikeng Astronomical Observatory of the North West University. ; you can also watch in the window above courtesy of the project.
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