Mysterious cosmic body is a rogue ‘Super-Jupiter’
Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...
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These mysterious objects born in violent clashes between young star systems aren't stars or planets
Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...
When Disks Collide: The Violent Birth of Rogue Planets
How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...
Which planet has the most moons? Saturn dethrones Jupiter.
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...
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Study reveals how rogue planetary-mass objects form in young star clusters
PMOs are cosmic nomads, drifting freely through space, unbound to any star. The mass of these objects is less than 13 times that of Jupiter. They are often observed in young star clusters like the ...
Webb telescope spots curious objects that aren't stars, or planets
Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...
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Webb uncovers atmospheric complexity of free-floating planetary-mass object SIMP 0136
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has uncovered the hidden complexity of SIMP 0136, ...