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The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 light-years from Earth,” NASA announced. Researchers recently used the ...

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employed precise infrared tracking of SIMP 0136 over many complete rotations. The object, with a mass of approximately 13 times that of Jupiter, is only 20 light-years away in the Milky Way.

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our ... then gathered data using the telescope’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).