NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of an asteroid that was once ranked as the biggest threat to Earth. Earlier this year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the top of the planetary defense watchlist after it was predicted to have a 3 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

The deep space asteroid that recently made headlines for its potential to collide with Earth received its own photoshoot courtesy of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. While the images released on April 2 by the European Space Agency provide a faint glimpse at the sizable meteor,