What are JuMBOs, 'Jupiter-sized' objects discovered floating in space?
The European Space Agency, using the powerful James Webb telescope, detected 40 pairs of these entities named Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in the Orion Nebula. to ‘That’s just so weird!’ to ‘How could binaries be ejected together?’" As Samuel Pearson, an ESA scientist who worked on the research, told The New York Times, “There’s something wrong with either our understanding of planet formation, star formation — or both.” “They shouldn’t exist,” Pearson added. “But… maybe all star formation regions host these double-Jupiters, and we just haven’t had a telescope powerful enough to see them before,” she told BBC. So this is really a very, very surprising result and we’re going to learn a lot from it.” Their existence “implies we may be missing something about how these very low mass objects form,” Bate told The New York Times.
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