A study published Nov. 6 in The Planetary Science Journal examines how NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has conducted a first-time detection of carbon dioxide in a centaur, this one designated 39P/Oterma. A centaur is a small planetary body that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune and frequently crosses the orbits of one or more of the gas giant planets within our solar system.
You HAD to describe what a centaur was, didn’t you? I was trying to line up a good joke, clicked, read the blurb, and deflated. Instead I learned something new, there are centaurs in space!
I can imagine the '50s B-movie poster already.
Blonde woman in an astronaut suit (no helmet, obvs), beautiful face clearly shown expressing her awe, riding the back of a centaur and clutching his muscled human half as he’s trotting over a planet or moon.
Also, he’s aiming a bow with a laser arrow at a space monster.
(Jesus, did I just write an AI prompt? Also, half of that works for a centaur romance novel as well.)
I think you’ve got the makings of a retro pulp webcomic right there. :)
Tina Belcher would be proud.