Keith Cooper is a freelance science journalist and editor in the United Kingdom, and has a degree in physics and astrophysics from the University of Manchester.
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesA James Webb Space Telescope image of a region the Perseus Molecular Cloud called NGC 1333, where six rogue planets have been discovered.The James Webb Space Telescope has identified half a dozen free-floating planets wandering alone in the Perseus Molecular Cloud.
This is remarkable, because it indicates that the smallest objects that form in the same way that stars do overlap in size and mass with some of the largest worlds that presumably form bottom-up and orbit around stars. "We are probing the very limits of the star-forming process," said Adam Langeveld, an astrophysicist also at Johns Hopkins University who led the new findings."If you have an object that looks like a young Jupiter, is it possible that it could have become a star under the right conditions? This is important context for understanding both star and planet formation."
What is not in dispute is that brown dwarfs can have orbiting planets, and in addition to the six newfound rogue worlds, Langeveld and Jayawardhana's team also discovered a brown dwarf in NGC 1333 with a planet, which is a fairly rare find in itself.systems do, from a cloud fragmenting as it contracted," said Jayawardhana."The diversity of systems that nature has produced is remarkable and pushes us to refine our models of star and planet formation.
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