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yuval Oct 3, 2023

Here is another #PiecesOfOrion favorite area, rich with proplyds. I created this image using DS9 + fits files (then python to fill holes in the snapshot), to compare it to the available processed data from ESA / @markmccaughrean
a link for this location on esa.sky:
sky.esa.int/esasky/?target=83.82592902499756%20-5.399523080317302&hips=JWST+NIRCam+Imaging&fov=0.0383636345148116&cooframe=J2000&sci=false&lang=en&jwst_image=webb_orionnebula_shortwave

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yuval Oct 2, 2023

maybe this is my favorite #PiecesOfOrion.

V Martín Oct 2, 2023

"JuMBO on Orion"

https://markmccaughrean.net/science
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Fingerpainted on tablet with #SketchbookApp

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Mark McCaughrean Oct 2, 2023

And did I tell you that while working on the #JWST Orion data all summer long, I was also listening to Icelandic language lesson tapes? 🤪

I'm almost fluent now, according to my friend Sævar Helgi Bragason, who I saw in Reykjavik last weekend & who wrote this lovely piece (I think 😬👍)

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https://www.stjornufraedi.is/frettir/webb-gaegist-inn-i-sverdthokuna-i-orion

Webb gægist inn í Sverðþokuna í Órión

Áður óséð fyrirbæri í Messier 42, einu nálægasta stjörnumyndunarsvæðinu við sólkerfið okkar

Stjörnufræðivefurinn

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V Martín Oct 2, 2023

An American Werewolf in London #pareidolia

05 35 14.081 -05 26 35.96

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V Martín Oct 2, 2023

The Pirate's Den #pareidolia

05 35 14.274 -05 24 24.76

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Mark McCaughrean Oct 2, 2023

And here's one from Jonathan O'Callaghan at the New York Times (paywalled, but hopefully some of you will have access 😼)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/orion-nebula-webb-planets.html

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James Webb Telescope Discovers Orion Nebula Enigmas That ‘Shouldn’t Exist’

In new, high-resolution imagery of the star-forming region, scientists spotted worlds that defied explanation, naming them Jupiter Mass Binary Objects.

The New York Times

Mark McCaughrean Oct 2, 2023

Another nice piece about our #JWST Orion images & results in The Guardian – thanks to Hannah Devlin for talking to me about them, & also to Matthew Bate & Ant Whitworth, star formation theorists, for their takes.

The Jupiter Mass Binary Objects or JuMBOs are a really big discovery, we believe. Check out the paper led by my colleague Sam Pearson that we've submitted to Nature here: markmccaughrean.net/science

(But there's more ...)

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/02/jumbos-jupiter-mass-binary-objects-discovery-orion-nebula-new-astronomical-category