On March 8, ALMA spotted a pair of jets blasting out of the comet's nucleus – its solid icy core. Spectrometry revealed that ...

A comet that has taken astronomers by surprise could shine as brightly as Venus in the night sky as it passes by Earth over the next few days. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was spotted in April last ...

"These detections enhance our understanding of Chiron's interior composition and how that material produces the unique behaviours as we observe Chiron." The asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body ...

Researchers have found that a space object called Chiron has traits like both an asteroid and comet. William Gonzalez Sierra It really rocked their world. Scientists using the James Webb Space ...

An artistic representation of Chiron’s nucleus surrounded by debris and a coma of dust and gas. Credit: William Gonzalez Sierra. UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover ...

A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other elements, ... Introducing 2060 Chiron. 2060 Chiron is 125 miles wide and it's a Centaur having first been discovered in 1977.

Chiron's dynamic behavior—oscillating between comet-like activity and asteroid-like stability—raises intriguing questions about its composition and the processes that govern its changes. Charles ...

Named 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide (200km) asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body known as a Centaur, named after the mythical creature that is half-horse and half-man.

It's been named Chiron and astronomers say it's a type of centaur, a half-comet-half-asteroid. Amaze Lab. This Mysterious ‘Centaur’ Travels the Solar System Not On Cloven Hoof, ...

Chiron, for instance, has properties similar to those of asteroids, but also sometimes has comet-like activity. Oh, and it has a ring around it, like a little miniature planetary ring. Because Chiron ...