{"id":980,"date":"2025-03-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:04:20","slug":"webb-telescope-spots-curious-objects-that-arent-stars-or-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/webb-telescope-spots-curious-objects-that-arent-stars-or-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb telescope spots curious objects that aren&#039;t stars, or planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/webb-telescope-spots-curious-objects-that-arent-stars-or-pla_9q6t.640.png\">They&#x27;re unbound, free-flying objects.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers used the powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/53409\/webb-telescope-zooms-in-on-object-free-flying-through-the-galaxy\" target=\"_blank\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/24291\/scientists-drop-absolutely-stunning-new-view-of-the-milky-way-galaxy\" target=\"_blank\">galaxy<\/a> called the Flame Nebula. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#x27;re unbound, free-flying objects. There&#8217;s a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}