Minor planet 2060 Chiron is what's known as a Centaur, which are captured cometary objects that travel around the sun on looping orbits between Jupiter and Neptune.Chiron is just 218 kilometers ...

What is causing the structure of the dust to evolve, and where exactly the dust comes from, is still a mystery.

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Unveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomy & Astrophysics , 2024; 692: L11 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450124 Cite This Page : ...

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid, giving ...

Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic and captivating inhabitants known as (2060) Chiron.

A Centaur Defying Expectations. First discovered in 1977 by astronomer Charles Kowal, Chiron orbits the Sun between 9.5 AU ...

In the Iliad, Homer calls Chiron the "wisest and justest of all the centaurs.". Fated to be overthrown by one of his children, Cronus, the godhead of the Titans, devoured them all upon their birth ...

The Death of Chiron. During his fourth labour to capture the Erymanthian boar, Herakles (Hercules) visited the centaur Pholus in his cave. When Pholus opened a bottle of wine that had been gifted ...