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Thought we already had a thread... can't find it. Getting pretty excited here.


NASA Invites Media, Public to View Webb Telescope’s First Images ~ July 12th

NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Released one by one, these first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope will demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe.

Each image will simultaneously be made available on social media as well as on the agency’s website at:

nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

NASA SITE

So excited !!

Thank you for bringing this up !!

Crazy how we've 'mapped the universe'... taken things down to a micro-molecular level. And still have these 'oh, what do we have here?' moments all the time. This one, not all that far away.

Maybe they're not natural. They could totally be recently constructed alien observation posts and megastructures.

...I've played too much Stellaris.

Though sometimes it does make one wonder.

A 'JuMBO' Discovery

Dozens of pairs of free-floating, Jupiter-sized objects were identified in the nearby Orion Nebula in what scientists are describing as a never-before-seen celestial body unexplained by current theories of planet formation. Composite images of the phenomenon—captured by the James Webb Space Telescope—were released concurrently with studies that have not yet been peer-reviewed.

The 150 objects, located roughly 1,300 light-years away within the "sword" of the Orion constellation, don't meet current definitions for any celestial category. Although they are the size of planets, they don't orbit a star; instead, many of them are in binary orbit, where each is gravitationally bound to the other. Their novelty prompted astronomers to carve out a new category: Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, or JuMBOs, indicating their singular combination of planetary mass and starless orbit.

The new phenomenon challenges current frameworks explaining how stars and planets form within nebula, with astrophysicists claiming such objects should not exist. Read the studies here.