Scientists Left Baffled After Discovering Asteroid-comet Hybrid That's Like Nothing Ever Seen...

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Scientists have made a shocking discovery about a rare object in our solar system likened to an asteroid-comet hybrid.

Astronomers from the University of Central Florida have made the space discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

As they analysed near-infrared images, the scientists found something that is 'like nothing' the astronomy world has ever seen before.

The UCF Florida Space Institute (FSI) researchers found a Centaur and while it may be named after a mythical creature that is half-horse and half-man, in space terms, it describes an asteroid-comet hybrid.

These bodies are found between Jupiter and Neptune and though they behave like asteroids, they produce gas and dust like comets.

An asteroid can be described as a large chunk of rock from left over collisions from the early stages of our solar system, which are mostly located between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt.

Centaurs are a combination of both, and one in particular has left researchers Dr Charles Schambeau and Scientist Noemí Pinilla-Alonso scratching their heads.

They're almost like time capsules containing information about the formation of our solar system, though something sets Chiron aside.