Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...
Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...
How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has uncovered the hidden complexity of SIMP 0136, ...