Webb telescope zooms in on solar system object shooting jets into space

Webb telescope zooms in on solar system object shooting jets into space

There’s a class of objects journeying around our solar system dubbed “centaurs.” They don’t come near Earth, but NASA just zoomed in on one with the powerful James Webb Space Telescope. The centaurs are thought to be icy objects from the solar system outskirts, where Pluto lives, but they’ve moved inward and now inhabit the…