Out in the blackness of space beyond Jupiter there is a wild hybrid orbiter unlike any other. It's been named Chiron and astronomers say it's a type of centaur, a half-comet-half-asteroid.

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 ...

"Based on our new JWST data, I'm not so sure we have a standard centaur," Pinilla-Alonso says. "Every active centaur that we are observing with JWST shows some peculiarity. But they cannot be all ...