{"id":55234,"date":"2023-10-04T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/photos-jwst-spots-dozens-of-rogue-jupiter-sized-planets-in-orion-nebula-close-up"},"modified":"2023-10-04T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:02:02","slug":"photos-jwst-spots-dozens-of-rogue-jupiter-sized-planets-in-orion-nebula-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/photos-jwst-spots-dozens-of-rogue-jupiter-sized-planets-in-orion-nebula-close-up","title":{"rendered":"Photos: JWST Spots Dozens of Rogue Jupiter-Sized Planets in Orion Nebula Close-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>A stunning new discovery has been made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT), the most powerful telescope ever built by humans. The orbital observatory has spotted dozens of planets roaming freely in the Orion nebula, unconnected to any star.<\/p>\n

Using the JWST, the scientists say they have found at least 40 pairs of Jupiter-sized objects freely floating about the Orion nebula, an area rich in new star formation about 1,350 light-years from Earth, so named because it sits within the constellation Orion in Earth\u2019s night sky.<\/p>\n

Some of the objects are floating by themselves, others seem to be orbiting each other – but not a star. Bereft of a better explanation, the scientists have dubbed them Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, or “JuMBOs,\u201d and say they might be a completely new category of interstellar object.<\/p>\n

According to reports, they explored the idea that the JuMBOs might be brown dwarfs or \u201chot Jupiters,\u201d as they are sometimes called, which are a type of failed star that is larger than Jupiter but not large enough to begin fusing hydrogen into helium – the explosive reaction that makes stars shine so brightly. Brown dwarfs can get very hot and glow a dull brown color due to lesser kinds of fusion, such as deuterium. But the objects observed by the JWST are too cool and too small to be brown dwarfs, with some even being smaller than Jupiter.<\/p>\n

Mark McCaughrean, a senior science adviser for the ESA who led the study, told British media they think the planets might have been ejected from the star systems in which they formed, rather than having formed alone.<\/p>\n

Or to put it another way ESA scientist Samuel Pearson said simply that the objects they\u2019ve found \u201cshouldn\u2019t exist,\u201d whether they formed independently or were ejected from star systems. Especially puzzling is why so many have paired together after being supposedly ejected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something wrong with either our understanding of planet formation, star formation – or both,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Their work has been published privately online and submitted to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, but has not yet been peer reviewed or accepted for publication.The ESA has also published the entire image of the Orion nebula for the public to marvel at or scrutinize to their heart\u2019s content.<\/p>\n

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