Free-floating, planetary mass objects are bodies with around 13 times the mass of Jupiter that are often found drifting through young star clusters, such as the Trapezium Cluster in Orion.

This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

While they have been spotted in abundance in young star clusters such as the Trapezium Cluster in Orion (Fig. 1), their origin has puzzled scientists. Traditional theories have suggested that they ...

Pairs of planetary-mass objects, floating freely in space, intrigue scientists with their nature and origin. With masses ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images in the near-infrared wavelength range of the region near the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion Nebula. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] For over ...

America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration James Webb Space Telescope observed hundreds of PMOs in Orion's Trapezium Cluster - a vast population far exceeding predictions of the ...

WHAT YOU NEED: A ruler, pens, scissors and paper. Image caption, STEP 1 - TRAPEZIUM x 2: On a rectangular piece of paper, use a ruler to draw two angled lines from the bottom corners to make a ...

The Orion Nebula - also known as M42 - is one of ... It contains a number of bright suns at its centre called the Trapezium, and is visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge in the sky.

"Planetary-mass objects don't fit neatly into existing categories of stars or planets." Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos ...