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 ...)

#PiecesOfOrion

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

Discovery of ‘Jumbos’ may herald new astronomical category

Jupiter-mass binary objects floating freely in Orion Nebula appear to defy usual definition of planets

The Guardian
@markmccaughrean I'm pinching the "Chihuahua-mass pet...it's a cat" line for use with my 6th years 🤣
@_thegeoff Tigger is veryupset though, as he says he's never seen a 6kg chihuahua 😉