Astronomers discover activity on distant centaur planetary objects – AlKhaleej Today

This new image from C / 2014 OG392 (PANSTARRS) and its extensive coma combine many digital images into a single exposure of 7,700 seconds. The dashed lines are star trails caused by the long exposure. The images were taken on October 14, 2020 with the Large Monolithic Imager on the 4.3 m long Lowell Discovery Telescope. Photo credit: Courtesy of Northern Arizona University
Centaurs are minor planets believed to have formed in the Kuiper Belt of the outer solar system. They sometimes have comet-like…

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