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Centaur 29P Outgassing
2024-06-15solar system
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, one of the most active objects in the outer solar system. Centaurs are "hybrid" objects in the sense that they share characteristics with trans-Neptunian objects from the Kuiper Belt reservoir and...
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. View on Flickr