NASA has never seen a comet here – BGR

• Our solar system is full of much less matter than planets and mountains, and sometimes they appear in the strangest places.
• NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has seen what looks like a comet hanging out near the group of asteroids orbiting Jupiter.
• A comet has never been seen in this area, and scientists are running symbols to find out where it came from.

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The Hubble Space Telescope, operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, has spent much of its life looking deep into space in search of new discoveries. He’s very, very good at that, but he’s just as capable of revealing mysteries that are much closer to home. Recently, researchers using Hubble observations were able to discover what a comet looks like hanging out in an area of ​​our solar system where comets are not usually seen.

In a new paper published in The Astronomical Journal, scientists point out that the comet is close to a group of asteroids that Jupiter was stirring long ago. The asteroids are called Trojans, and orbit the sun but are also controlled by the gravitational force of Jupiter. Now, a comet has joined the group.

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The king of the solar system is often called Jupiter, and for good reason. The giant gas giant has been credited with protecting the inner planets from potentially dangerous asteroids, dragging them into a solar-centric orbit and preventing them from traveling deeper. into the solar system. But its impact is not limited to asteroids, and as we can see now with this new “comet object”, the planet is good at absorbing all sorts of material.

As NASA explains in a blog post, the object is believed to be a type of frozen body called Centaur, which is typically seen traveling around between Jupiter and Neptune. When heated by the Sun, the ice filters out and gives them a more comet appearance.

“The interesting thing is that you actually catch Jupiter whipping this object around and altering its orbital behavior and bringing it into the internal system,” said co-author Carey Lisse from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in a statement. “Jupiter will take control of what comes with comets once they get into the internal system by changing the orbit.”

By keeping track of its current trends, the researchers can also estimate the past as well as the future. Unfortunately for the comet, which received the LD2 designation, it could be tied for deep space. Researchers who are likely to see the future movements of the comet suggest that it could end up out of our solar system completely, but that is not expected to happen for around 500,000 year. In the meantime, he will finally leave his home around Jupiter and, depending on various factors, will meet him again before being thrown out of our system.

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