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Explore the groundbreaking discovery of free-floating binary planets in the Orion Nebula, challenging traditional notions of planetary formation.

Starless Wonders After the James Webb Space Telescope discovered dozens of rogue Jupiter-sized objects with no stars to orbit, a team of Mexican scientists decided to check out what kind of signals these bizarre bodies were emitting — and were stumped by what they found. It all started last fall, when a duo of astronomers […]

According to them, these objects are too light to have formed alone and are unexpectedly numerous.

Free-floating Jupiter-sized "planets" found in space and orbiting only each other have baffled astronomers, forcing them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.

A November story from Quanta Magazine that was published in Wired today considered the nascent attempts to explain so-called Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JUMBOs) — gas giant pairs, free-floating and orbiting only each other — littering the Orion nebula. According to the article, they’re too light to have formed alone and are unexpectedly numerous. One possibility is planets with “tightly-spaced orbits” being dragged out of their solar system by a passing star.

Here's our take on the 10 greatest JWST discoveries made in the two years since the telescope was launched on Dec. 25, 2021.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared gaze sheds new light on the Orion nebula, an icon of the night sky

The experts also identified brown dwarfs — too small to start the nuclear fusion at their cores to become stars

Astronomers have discovered a new look into the Orion Nebula using the James Webb Space Telescope discovering a planet-like object at a distance of 1,300 light-years from Earth, according to...

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