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Keith Cooper

James Webb Space Telescope watches a frozen, comet-like object shooting jets of gas

Beams of light shoot out from behind a double orbed space rock, in space.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have witnessed jets of primordial gas from the birth of the solar system spewing from a distant, comet-like object called a centaur.

The observations provide clues as to how this centaur and others formed, what they are made of, and how they eventually transition into full-fledged comets, the research team said in a study published in the journal Nature.

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