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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic and captivating inhabitants known as (2060) Chiron.

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. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the ...