Webb telescope zooms in on object free-flying through the galaxy
What are you, SIMP 0136?Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 times the mass of Jupiter, it could be a rogue planet speeding around the cosmos, or possibly a failed star, called a brown dwarf. An instrument on Webb called the Near-Infrared Spectrograph collects light from distant objects and then separates them into different wavelengths, or colors, like a prism. These
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