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'Like nothing we've seen before': James Webb telescope spies a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid lurking past JupiterThe James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...
Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured asteroid 2023 BU when it less than 40,000 km (25,854 mi.) away from ...
XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest ...
The massive rock is believed to be ten storeys high and will skim past the planet at 14,743 miles per hour in the early hours ...
Space on MSN2d
Asteroid-comet chimera Chiron has an unusual ice mix, James Webb Space Telescope findsAn object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...
The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...
JWST uncovered Chiron’s rare ices and gases, providing new insights into its unique activity and its link to the solar system ...
NASA scientists are closely monitoring 120-foot long Asteroid 2024 XN1, which they say is set to "skim" Earth on December ...
Astronomy on MSN2d
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 ...
StudyFinds on MSN3d
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 ...
The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...
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