It really rocked their world. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have better observed an asteroid that strangely possesses hybrid characteristics of a comet as well.. The strange rock ...

Out in the blackness of space beyond Jupiter there is a wild hybrid orbiter unlike any other. It's been named Chiron and astronomers say it's a type of centaur, a half-comet-half-asteroid. Huge ...

A large asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Neptune and Jupiter is an intriguing oddball as far as cosmic rocks go. Chiron, as the strange centaur is called, is what astronomers call a minor ...

Unveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA. James Webb Space Telescope. University of Central Florida. Uncovering a Centaur’s Tracks: ...

Now, astronomers are learning more about a famous centaur known as (2060) ... According to NASA, an asteroid like Dimorphos is a small, ...

Uncovering a centaur's tracks: Scientists examine unique asteroid-comet hybrid. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241218131526.htm ...

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid, giving ...

Prior to its affair with the ringed planet, the asteroid was probably a centaur, an asteroid moving around the sun among the orbits of the giant planets (SN: 11/12/77).

Charikos makes its home in our Solar System’s equivalent of the Arctic Circle, after all, and it’s a type of asteroid called a Centaur: asteroids with an icy makeup similar to comets.

United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Monday morning (Jan. 8).