Moderator CaaC (John) Posted September 2 Moderator Posted September 2 Quote JWST spots new rogue worlds The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted 6 new “rogue worlds” in a young star-forming nebula about 1,000 light-years away. Rogue worlds are objects with planet-like masses that traverse space alone, untethered to a star. The lightest and most intriguing of these 6 new worlds is surrounded by a disc of space dust the researchers say may be able to form its own planets. “This might be a nursery of a miniature planetary system, on a scale much smaller than our solar system,” says Dr Aleks Scholz, an astrophysicist at the University of St Andrews, UK, and co-author of the new paper published today in The Astronomical Journal. Quote
Moderator CaaC (John) Posted December 11 Moderator Posted December 11 Quote 'Christmas lights' galaxy reveals how Universe formed Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has for the first time captured an image of what our galaxy likely looked like just as it was forming - and it's got space scientists feeling very Christmassy. “I just love the sparkle galaxy with its Christmas lights shining as it was when the Universe was just 600 million years old,” Prof Catherine Heymans, Scotland’s Astronomer Royal, told BBC News. Quote
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