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Asteroid-comet hybrid named "Chiron" is unlike anything ever seen before
JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...
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Astronomers Use JWST To Study a Rare Asteroid-Comet Hybrid Named “Chiron”
Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during ...
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Asteroid-comet chimera Chiron has an unusual ice mix, James Webb Space Telescope finds
An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...
Asteroid or comet? Scientists find ancient ice giant in our solar system
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...
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'Like nothing we've seen before': James Webb telescope spies a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid lurking past Jupiter
The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...
A strange asteroid-comet could be key to understanding the birth of the solar system
A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...
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The Minor Planet Chiron Is Strange – And So Is Its Ice
The JWST has examined Chiron, a minor planet that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune, and found unexpectedly different ices ...
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'Like nothing we've seen before': James Webb telescope spies a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid lurking past Jupiter
The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids. New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) findings are giving scientists a fresh look at an "oddball" space rock ...