Asteroid hit by Nasa leaves thousands of miles of dust and debris

A plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA's DART spacecraft

(Picture: AP)

An asteroid that was deliberately struck by a NASA spacecraft is now trailing thousands of miles of debris from the impact.

Astronomers captured the remarkable scene using a telescope in Chile, two days after an unprecedented $325m planetary defence test last week saw NASA fly a probe directly into the huge rock.