Newfound Worlds? NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers Mysterious Disks Around Tiny “Failed” Stars

Using JWST, astronomers confirmed that some proplyds in the Orion Nebula surround brown dwarfs, providing new insights into these faint star-like objects and their potential planetary systems. Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust, known as protoplanetary disks, within which planets are formed. In the Orion Nebula, the brightest and most massive […]