Something very strange is happening in the nearby Orion Nebula.
Split view shows the NIRCam image at short wavelengths and NIRCam’s longer wavelength view of the Orion Nebula. | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA / Science leads and image processing: M. McCaughrean, S. Pearson,Webb’s latest observations show nearly 150 free-floating objects within the Orion Nebula, each with about the same mass as Jupiter. They are strange enough as is, but scientists are puzzled that about 80 of these objects seem to be moving in pairs.
“Gas physics suggests you shouldn’t be able to make objects with the mass of Jupiter on their own, and we know single planets can get kicked out from star systems. But how do you kick out pairs of these things together? Right now, we don’t have an answer. It’s one for the theoreticians,” the European Space Agency’s senior science adviser
“This image shows the full survey of the inner Orion Nebula and Trapezium Cluster made using the NIRCam instrument on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This is the short-wavelength colour composite, which reveals the nebula, its stars, and many other objects in unprecedented detail in the infrared.” | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA / Science leads and image processing: M. McCaughrean, S. Pearson,Stars form when giant clouds of dust and gas are made denser by gravitational forces.
“It’s like kicking a cup of tea across a room and having all the tea land in the teacup,” says Dr. Samuel Pearson, a scientist at the ESA who worked on the observations. “And then doing that 42 times.” Dr. Matthew Bate, a professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom calls the discovery “completely unexpected.”
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