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James Webb Space Telescope sees the Orion Nebula in striking new light (images)

The Orion Nebula may be a familiar and well-studied celestial object, but new images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show this star-forming cloud of gas and dust in an incredibly new and vivid light. The Orion Nebula, also known as “Messier 42” (M42), is located approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation… Read More »

The mystery of how strange cosmic objects called ‘JuMBOs’ became rogue

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 »