So, many questions arise about Chiron’s properties that allow these unique behaviours.’ Centaurs are the dinosaur bones of the solar system, made up of the same dust and gas that formed the solar ...
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.
"Based on our new JWST data, I'm not so sure we have a standard centaur," Pinilla-Alonso says. "Every active centaur that we are observing with JWST shows some peculiarity. But they cannot be all ...