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Judy Jesoro Rotich

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: James webb telescope captures new celestial phenomenon jupiter sized objects in binary orbit - Caught on Camera

This is a portrait of the main nebulosity in Orion around the Belt and Sword, including: the Orion Nebula itself (at the bottom). Dozens of Jupiter-sized objects identified in the Orion Nebula in a new scientific discovery. ALAN DYER/VW PICS/UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES.

Composite images of dozens of pairs of free-floating objects never seen before were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The Jupiter-sized objects described by scientists as a new phenomenon in the celestial body is unexplained by current theories of planet formation.

Located roughly 1,300 light-years away within the “sword” of the Orion constellation, the 150 objects do not meet any current celestial category definitions.

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