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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 ...
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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Scientists Discover Earth Life inside an Asteroid Sample
Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...
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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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Asteroid or comet? Scientists find ancient ice giant in our solar system that’s both!
Discover what astronomers are learning about an ancient ice giant traveling through our solar system that's a strange hybrid ...
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The Asteroid That Could Wipe Out Civilization
What if our planet's future hangs by a thread? 🌍✨ This video dives into the chilling realities of asteroids and their ...
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How do spacecraft avoid collisions in the asteroid belt?
The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated that spacecraft pass through as though ...