A mysterious new kind of celestial object discovered by the James Webb telescope just inched closer to reality, a new study reports.
Looking within a large stellar nursery in the southern sky, astronomers found two pairs of "rogue" Jupiter-like objects that are similar to mysteriously paired planets that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) previously discovered. The planet pairs — which tumble through space, seemingly untethered to any star — dwell in a different part of the Milky Way than JWST's initial discoveries, suggesting that the enigmatic objects truly are a new kind of object. However, further observations are still necessary for confirmation.
