ScienceWebb reportedly spots brown dwarfs about twice Jupiter’s mass in IC 348
The science-news account X_Science_News says one object shows a disk, suggesting planets might form around something barely planet-sized.
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X_Science_News describes Webb’s view of IC 348, a stellar nursery 1,000 light-years away, as one of the telescope’s largest public images. The account says it shows brown dwarfs about twice Jupiter’s mass—smaller than models expect—and that one shows a disk. It suggests planets may form around something barely planet-sized.
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Webb reportedly spots brown dwarfs about twice Jupiter’s mass in IC 348
The science-news account X_Science_News says one object shows a disk, suggesting planets might form around something barely planet-sized.