Astrophysics
Possible clues to how stars are born
Published Aug 27, 2024The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six likely rogue worlds—objects with planetlike masses but untethered from any star’s gravity—including the lightest ever identified with a dusty disk around it. The findings, from Webb’s deepest survey of the young nebula NGC1333, offer new evidence that the same cosmic processes that give birth to stars may also play a common role in making objects only slightly bigger than Jupiter.
