NASA's Lucy spacecraft snaps first close-ups of weird peanut-shaped asteroid

A timelapse of images taken by NASA's Lucy spacecraft as it flew by asteroid Donaldjohanson.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured its first high-resolution images of an asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped 150-million-year-old space rock.

The asteroid Donaldjohanson formed when two smaller objects smashed into each other. Donaldjohanson is narrow in the middle with two lobes on either side, like a misshapen peanut with one kernel larger than the other.