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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 "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.
James Webb telescope spots more than 100 new asteroids between Jupiter and Mars — and some are heading toward Earth
Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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 solar system.
James Webb telescope uncovers secrets of mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid beyond Jupiter
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals new details about Chiron, a unique asteroid-comet hybrid, offering insights into its composition and the early solar system's formation.
James Webb Telescope Uncovers a Mind-Bending Hybrid of Asteroid and Comet Defying All Expectations
The vast expanse of space often feels like a puzzle, with celestial objects serving as pieces that hold clues to the universe’s origins. Among these, Chiron, a rare hybrid between an asteroid and a comet,
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The James Webb Space Telescope Solved A Mystery That Puzzled Scientists For Over Two Decades
That means those planets had time to develop and grow to large sizes, bigger than Jupiter, inside their primordial ...
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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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Smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected found hiding in JWST data
With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...
The world's largest space telescope just got an unexpected new role: asteroid hunter
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.
An ‘oddball’ asteroid-comet hybrid dates back 4.6 billion years
The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...
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Stars get ripped open like Christmas presents to create strange 'JuMBO' worlds
What did you get fot X-mas? Scientists may have been gifted with a solution to the mystery of juMBOs, strange celestial ...
From Depths Of Space: James Webb Telescope’s Three-Year Journey Of Uncovering Dead Galaxies, Red Dots, Icy Secrets
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 years to ...