JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during ...

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” ...

Discover what astronomers are learning about an ancient ice giant traveling through our solar system that's a strange hybrid ...

More information: Amanda A. Sickafoose et al, Material around the Centaur (2060) Chiron from the 2018 November 28 UT Stellar Occultation, The Planetary Science Journal (2023). DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ad0632 ...

Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic ...

Since Chiron possesses characteristics of both an asteroid and a comet ... Unveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope, Astronomy ...