Written by Amira Shehata Tuesday, October 3, 2023 09:00 PM Revealed James Webb Space Telescope NASA revealed a mysterious new class of objects while looking at the Orion Nebula about 1,344 light-years away. The binary objects have a mass equivalent to the planet Jupiter, so they were called “JUMBOs,” a strange new class of worlds that seem to defy classification, even… It left scientists confused.
According to what the British newspaper “Daily Mail” reported, these worlds are called JUMBOs because they resemble Jupiter in mass, but they cannot be planets because they do not revolve around their original star, and they are too small to be stars.
These objects contain steam and methane in their atmospheres and have hellish surface temperatures of about 1,830 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius), but experts do not believe they are home to alien life.
Jumbo objects have been identified in new images revealed by the European Space Agency (ESA) that show the Orion Nebula in unprecedented detail.
According to the agency, data from ground telescopes hinted at the existence of these objects before they were officially identified by James Webb.
“We were looking for these very small objects and we found them,” Professor Mark Macogrian from the European Space Agency told The Guardian. “We find them at the bottom the size of Jupiter’s mass, or even half the mass of Jupiter, floating freely, not attached to a star.”
JUMBOs include the word “binary” in their name because some of them come in pairs, such as binary solar systems containing two stars.
The James Webb Telescope observed about 40 pairs of these objects in total, and while jumbo is too small to be stars, that doesn’t mean they are planets.
