Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter

James Webb Telescope Found a Planet-Sized Object Roaming Through Space

NASA’s extremely powerful James Webb Space Telescope just spotted an enormous object freely floating in space and gave it an unintentionally hilarious name. SIMP 0136, as it’s called, presumably because it’s obsessed with a female space object that doesn’t even know SIMP exists, is described as a “planetary-mass” object, meaning, well, that it’s got the mass of a planet — and a big one. Authors of the study published in The Astrophysical Journal…

Mysterious cosmic body is a rogue 'Super-Jupiter'

SIMP 0136 shows just how complex our universe really is.

James Webb Spots Mysterious Object Crossing Space Between Stars

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a mysterious object that's freely floating through interstellar space. According to NASA, the "planetary-mass" object, dubbed SIMP 0136, is roughly 13 times the mass of Jupiter, and is located just 20 light-years from Earth. It's also spinning at a breakneck speed, completing a full rotation every 2.4 hours. Thanks to the JWST's detailed infrared light observations, an international te…

Webb telescope zooms in on object free-flying through the galaxy

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer into SIMP 0136, a free-floating object traveling through the Milky Way galaxy.

Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter

An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating planetary-mass object known as SIMP 0136 must be the result of a complex combination of atmospheric factors, and cannot be explained by clouds alone.

Free, without bindings or turning around any other planetary object is how the planet SIMP 0136 is found in Space. This planet is 13 times larger than Jupiter. This planet managed to be observed with the James Webb telescope, with which it has been able to observe the layers of clouds, temperature and chemistry of the carbon of the space object. The planet SIMP 0136 rotates quickly and floats freely through Space, and is also 20 light years away…