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 ...

Astronomers have spotted possible rings around the minor planet Chiron, suggesting that ring systems may be more common throughout the solar system than scientists had previously thought. A team ...

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

The minor planet Chiron may not be a household name like Saturn, but it might just have a ring to it. Scientists observing the centaur believe they have detected a circulating disc of debris ...

The minor planet Chiron may not be a household name like Saturn, but it might just have a ring to it. Scientists observing the centaur — a class of small, hybrid celestial bodies with characteristics ...

Unveiling the ice and gas nature of active centaur (2060) Chiron using the James Webb Space Telescope. Journal: Astronomy & Astrophysics Published: 2024-12-01 DOI: ...

Astronomers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe that 'minor planet', Chiron, which is located between Saturn and Uranus, may have rings of Saturn-like (pictured) gas and dust.

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 ...

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 : ...

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.

Possible ring material around centaur (2060) Chiron. ... We derived Chiron’s rotational lightcurve in 2013 from observations at the 1.23-m CAHA telescope and indeed its amplitude is smaller than ...