When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of the powerful storms and silicate clouds found in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. | Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/University of Western Ontario/Stony Brook University/Tim Pyle The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected stormy weather in the skies around… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of brown dwarfs, “failed stars” in the Milky Way that can be detected by the Rubin Observatory. | Credit: Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva The Milky Way may harbor a sea of faint “failed stars,” or brown dwarfs,… Read More »
At the end of 2023, astronomers made a surprising discovery in the Orion Nebula. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team found 40 double planetary mass objects, none of which were orbiting a star. These are called Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, or JuMBOs. In short, this discovery directly challenged both the theories of… Read More »
Last year, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made the surprising discovery of some free-floating, planetary-mass objects in the Orion Nebula that cast doubt on their ideas about planet and star formation. And now, new research has further deepened the mystery around these objects, called Jupiter-mass binary objects, or JuMBOs. JuMBOs are not… Read More »