Welcome To Chariklo, A Ringed World In The Solar System Just Examined By The Webb Telescope
Chariklo, discovered in 1997, is an asteroid of the Centaur variety, exhibiting characteristics of ... [+] both asteroids and comets. It's orbit takes it from 13 AU (astronomical units) to nearly 19 AU from the Sun.
About 146 miles/235 km in diameter—so about half as long as the Grand Canyon and twice as wide as the English Channel—Chariklo is a Centaur, an asteroid that orbits the Sun from way out beyond Jupiter and Neptune.
Look! JWST captures images of an asteroid with a ring playing peek-a-boo with a star
A handful of planets in our Solar System have rings: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, which most people know.
Chariklo is an icy asteroid that orbits in the vast space between the paths of Neptune and Uranus, and it's tiny: about 160 miles (250 kilometers) wide. But it sports at least two narrow, finely-wrought rings.
Webb Spies Chariklo Ring System With High-Precision Technique – James Webb Space Telescope
Editor's Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process.
In an observational feat of high precision, scientists used a new technique with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to capture the shadows of starlight cast by the thin rings of Chariklo.
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Solar system 'detectives' search for clues in 'crumbs' left over from early solar system | ...
A magnifying glass just won't cut it for the high-tech "detectives" at the University of Arizona Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility .
Part of the UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory , or LPL, the facility has been a resource for public and private science programs, both on and off campus, since 2016.
Generac Hid Knowledge of Solar System Part Defect, Suit Says (1)
Generac Holdings Inc. concealed important business metrics from investors, including the health of its legacy generator offerings and a component defect in a solar energy system, an investor says in a proposed class action.
The investor, the California Ironworkers Field Pension Trust, says Generac moved into the solar power and storage business to offset rivals' bites out of its generator sales. But that move depended on a partner that eventually faced bankruptcy.
Should You Really Worry about Solar Flares? - Scientific American
On January 6 a powerful solar flare erupted from the surface of the sun. It was the first X-class flare—the strongest type on the flare intensity scale— in around two months .
Solar flares arise within the sun’s roiling soup of plasma when charged particles thrash around one another to form intense magnetic field lines that can tangle and interweave.
Lucy Adds Another Asteroid to its Flyby List - Universe Today
In October 2021, NASA launched its ambitious Lucy mission. Its targets are asteroids, two in the main belt and eight Jupiter trojans, which orbit the Sun in the same path as Jupiter.
Visiting ten asteroids in one mission is the definition of ambitious, and now NASA is adding an eleventh.
Shooting Tiny, High Speed Bullets at a Spacecraft Could Speed Up Travel to The Stars : ScienceAlert
Today, multiple space agencies are investigating cutting-edge propulsion ideas that will allow for rapid transits to other bodies in the Solar System.
While these and other ideas could allow for interplanetary exploration, getting beyond the Solar System presents some major challenges.
The James Webb Space Telescope is so precise it can find rings around a tiny icy world a over two billion miles awa… https://t.co/MkVsScBhyT Forbes (from New York, NY) Thu Jan 26 19:06:50 +0000 2023
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