{"id":110330,"date":"2024-10-04T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110330"},"modified":"2024-10-04T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T07:47:53","slug":"james-webb-telescope-spots-bizarre-object-thats-spewing-out-jets-of-gases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110330","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Telescope Spots Bizarre Object That&#8217;s Spewing Out Jets of Gases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"block pb-1 text-3xl leading-none uppercase border-b lg:hidden xs:text-4xl font-k lg:text-5 border-red\">&#8220;We had never seen anything like this.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Flatulent Farer<\/h2>\n<p>NASA scientists using the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/supernova-james-webb-hubble-constant\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> have spotted a strange, distant object in our solar system that&#8217;s repeatedly shooting out jets of gas.<\/p>\n<p>Caught between the orbits of Neptune and Jupiter, the icy, outgassing body is a type of object known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/james-webb-spots-asteroid-with-its-own-saturn-like-rings\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">centaur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Centaurs are somewhere between a comet and an asteroid \u2014 and thanks to the James Webb&#8217;s spectral data, we&#8217;re learning more about what&#8217;s behind their unusual characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-024-02319-3\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">new study<\/a> published in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, the object dubbed Centaur 29P has two jets of carbon dioxide that have never been seen before, as well as a jet of carbon monoxide.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers had previously observed another CO jet on Centaur 29, but this is the first time they&#8217;ve confirmed the presence of CO2. Based on a 3D model of the jets, the researchers believe the centaur was formed from a mash of several objects with different compositions \u2014 a potential insight into how stuff formed in the early history of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It challenges our ideas about how primordial objects are created and stored in the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/hidden-ring-solar-system\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">Kuiper Belt<\/a>,&#8221; study coauthor Geronimo Villanueva at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/webbtelescope.org\/contents\/news-releases\/2024\/news-2024-130\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">statement about the work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">On the Cent<\/h2>\n<p>Centaurs share traits with both asteroids and comets: they can look like the former, but are mainly composed of ice like the latter.<\/p>\n<p>They are also in orbital limbo. Astronomers believe that centaurs were once trans-Neptunian objects that were pulled from the outer Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies that encircles our Solar System and is home to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/james-webb-pluto-charon-chemicals\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">Pluto<\/a>, into the interior by the gravity of giant planets, where they begin to resemble the orbit of comets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Centaurs can be considered as some of the leftovers of our planetary system&#8217;s formation. Because they are stored at very cold temperatures, they preserve information about volatiles in the early stages of the solar system,&#8221; said NASA Goddard scientist and lead author Sara Faggi in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Webb really opened the door to a resolution and sensitivity that was impressive to us \u2014 when we saw the data for the first time, we were excited. We had never seen anything like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Smells Fishy<\/h2>\n<p>These latest findings are intriguing, but more work will be needed to explain the most puzzling part of the centaur&#8217;s behavior: why it&#8217;s spewing gas.<\/p>\n<p>Comets, their close cousins, do the same thing \u2014 they outgas water, which is how they get their distinct glow. As they near the Sun, hot temperatures cause their ice to instantly turn into a gas.<\/p>\n<p>But centaurs reside in the frigid outskirts of the Solar System \u2014 so heat, at least not from the Sun, can&#8217;t be the cause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d like to go back and look at Centaur 29P over a much longer period of time,&#8221; coauthor Adam Mackay, an astronomer at Appalachian State University, said in the statement.\u00a0 &#8220;Looking at these jets over time would give us much better insights into what is driving these outbursts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More on space: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/planet-orbiting-closest-single-star\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">Astronomers Spot Mysterious Planet Orbiting the Closest Single Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/james-webb-object-shooting-gas\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We had never seen anything like this.&#8221; Flatulent Farer NASA scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a strange, distant object in our solar system that&#8217;s repeatedly shooting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110330\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}