The new space observatory sees pairs of Jupiter-sized objects floating free between the stars.
At just 1,400 light-years from Earth, the Orion Nebula, M42, is visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge
The telescope observed about 20 pairs in a fabulously detailed new survey of the famous Orion Nebula.One possibility is that these objects grew out of regions in the nebula where the density of material was insufficient to make fully fledged stars. The Orion Nebula, also known by its sky catalogue name of M42, is the nearest, large star-forming region to Earth.
To give a sense of scale, it would take a spaceship travelling at light speed a little over four years to traverse the entire scene. The nebula itself is about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Look at the longer wavelength version to examine the sculpted green clouds of gas that contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. PAHs are ubiquitous compounds in space produced by stars.Known as the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 outflow, this is a mass of molecular hydrogen that has been shocked by the the immense energy streaming away from the site of a cataclysmic collision of two giant stars.
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