He James Webb Space Telescopealso known by its acronym in English, JWSThas been an instrument of extremely high value for the scientific community in recent months.
And since its activation, the research community of the POT and different academies have taken advantage of each data and photograph captured to advance by leaps and bounds in different branches of science and astronomy.
Not long ago we gave the first details of LHS 475 b, the first exoplanet that could be habitable and was discovered by JWST.
This is a finding that was considerably unlikely in the short term just a few years ago and is now a reality thanks to the technology of this telescope.
But its power has also implied new challenges and the rupture of multiple paradigms. Just as happens with the case that we share with you today.
Where James Webb took a brutal photograph of the Orion Nebula, but captured images of hundreds of strange objects, which are neither stars nor planets.
150 JUMBO objects are imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope
On October 2, 2023, the official account in X (formerly Twitter) of the James Webb Space Telescope, revealed a series of images captured about the Orion Nebula, where it reports the detection of multiple strange and anomalous objects.
Before starting with the conspiracy and alien theories, it is necessary to highlight that the scientific community immediately designated a name for these things: JuMBOs.
👑 The nebula has a rich diversity of phenomena and objects.
Take this circumstellar disk. It’s being heated & evaporated by the Trapezium stars, forming a colorful tail of molecular and ionized gas. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/FVjhxS3Zjn
— ESA Webb Telescope (@ESA_Webb) October 2, 2023
James Webb’s Astonishing Find: Pairs of Free-Floating Jupiter-sized ‘JuMBO’ Planets in Orion’s Starry Realm
In the vast cosmic expansion of the Orion Nebula, the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a remarkable secret. A constellation of Jupiter-sized celestial wanderers,… pic.twitter.com/QkJHGfy6U2
— The Sagan Experience (@saganexperience) October 2, 2023
The Orion Nebula is located more than 1,300 light years from Earth and according to the European Space Agency, ESA, these more than 150 binary bodies have the mass of Jupiter but are not large enough to be considered stars, nor nor planets.
That is why they have been called JuMBOs: Jupiterian Mass Binary Objects. Bodies that also have other very distinctive characteristics such as their atmospheres contain steam and methane, their surface temperature exceeds 1,000 ºC and they are at least one million years old.
There are currently some theories about the origin of these strange objects, but none of them are certain. On the one hand, it is believed that they could have been born from one of the regions of the nebula where the density would make its formation possible.
It is also considered that their presence there in the image is the product of a series of rebounds after having been formed around other stars very far away from them.
In any case, the JWST shows that there is still much to explore.