NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a mysterious object that's spinning as it floats freely through outer 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 spinning at a breakneck pace, turning on its axis every 2.4 hours. It's a pretty odd outlier as it doesn't orbit a star. Astronomers are also not ruling out the possibility that it's a brown dwarf, an object that's between a planet and a star. Thanks to the JWST's detailed infrared light observations, an […]

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