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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/orion-nebula-webb-planets.html>
"We have discovered a lot in this universe. Planets that orbit stars at right
angles. Forbidden worlds that have cheated death. Space explosions that defy
explanation.
Yet the cosmos continues to surprise us.
The latest spectacle, observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, is an
agglomeration of nearly 150 free-floating objects amid the Orion Nebula, not
far in mass from Jupiter. Dozens of these worlds are even orbiting each other.
The scientists who discovered them have called them Jupiter Mass Binary
Objects, or JuMBOs, and the reason for their appearance is a complete mystery.
“There’s something wrong with either our understanding of planet formation,
star formation — or both,” said Samuel Pearson, a scientist at the European
Space Agency who worked on the observations that were shared on Monday, which
have not yet been peer reviewed. “They shouldn’t exist.”"
Via
Future Crunch:
https://futurecrunch.com/226-eighth-continent/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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