At the end of 2023, astronomers made a startling discovery in the Orion Nebula. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team found 40 pairs of planetary mass objects — none of which orbit a star. They’re called Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects, or JuMBOs. In short, this discovery directly challenged both star birth and planet […]
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This hellish exoplanet’s skies rain iron and create a rainbow-like effect
There are many words that could be used to describe WASP-76b — hellish, scorching, turbulent, chaotic, and even violent. This is a planet outside the solar system that sits so close to its star it gets hot enough to vaporize lead. So, as you can imagine, until now, “glorious” wasn’t one of those words. This […]
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