"Unraveling the Mystery of Hundreds of 'Rogue' Planets Spotted by James Webb Telescope"

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected hundreds of mysterious free-floating planets in the Orion Nebula, including pairs of Jupiter-size worlds that orbit each other. A new study suggests that these "rogue" planets, particularly the Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs), may have formed through the cloud-collapse model rather than being pulled away from their parent planetary systems by passing stars. The research, which involved simulations of planetary systems and stellar flybys, provides insights into the formation of these enigmatic free-floating planets and could aid future observations by telescopes such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.