10-10-2024 14:35 via SciTechDaily

Webb Telescope Captures Mysterious Gas Jets From Speeding Object in the Outer Solar System

Scientists revealed unexpected outgassing from this object galloping across the outer solar system. Similar to the Ancient Greek mythological creature of the same name, centaurs in astronomy are in an in-between dynamical phase: leaving their distant and stable orbits beyond Neptune and migrating to the inner solar system, while also entering an active cometary phase. [...]
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