Dhaka, July 5 -- NASA has released the first high-resolution images of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing its unusual peanut-like shape following a key encounter by the Lucy spacecraft earlier this year.

The images were captured on April 20, when the Lucy mission performed a fly-by of the asteroid, located in the solar system's main asteroid belt. The milestone serves as a crucial test ahead of the mission's primary goal - exploring Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

Using its L'LORRI imager, Lucy captured the high-resolution images just minutes before its closest approach to the asteroid. The photos reveal that Donaldjohanson is larger than previously estimated, measuring approximately 8 kilometers long and 3.5 kilometers wide a...