JWST finds free-floating planets in the Orion Nebula?

If there’s one thing that’s almost always true in the science of astronomy, it’s this: whenever you take a new instrument, telescope, or observatory — one that’s more powerful and with new capabilities that surpass all others previously — you’re bound to uncover new details wherever you look, even if it’s peering at an object you’ve viewed thousands of times before. Since mid-2022, when JWST finished its commissioning operations and began observing various aspects of the Universe, it’s revolutionized our views of planets, stars, nebulae, galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the deepest, darkest recesses of the distant Universe. Recently, however, it turned its attention to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the Orion Nebula</a>: the closest large star-forming region to Earth. Located just 1300 light-years away and containing ~2000 times the mass of the Sun, it spans more than a full square degree on the sky, while the densest star cluster within it, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezium_Cluster" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Trapezium Cluster</a>, contains approximately 2800 stars located within 20 light-years of one another. <a href="https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-finds-free-floating-planets-in-the-orion-nebula-c94d1019bfeb">Website</a>