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Some startling discoveries from JWST and now Euclid and shaking up our ideas of planet formation and evolution free floating worlds that really tax our current theories and could be just the tip of the iceberg. Join us today as we explore a "jumbo" mystery that's recently emerged in astronomy...

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REFERENCES
► McCaughrean, M. J. & Pearson, S. G. 2023, "A JWST survey of the Trapezium Cluster & inner Orion Nebula. I. Observations & overview": https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03552
► Pearson, S. G. & McCaughrean, M. J. 2023, "Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in the Trapezium Cluster": https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01231
► Wang, Y., Perna, R., Zhu, Z. 2024, "Floating binary planets from ejections during close stellar encounters", https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06016
► Zwart, S. P. & Hochart, E. 2023, "The origin and evolution of wide Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in young stellar clusters": https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04645

MUSIC
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0:00 Hill There is but One Good [https://open.spotify.com/track/1vlxAs...]
3:39 Falls Life in Binary
5:10 Hill Circle
10:13 Chris Zabriskie The Sun is Scheduled to Come Out Tomorrow
13:23 Indive Trace Correction

CHAPTERS
0:00 Free Floating Planets
3:39 YT Premium
5:10 Seeking Rogue Worlds
7:12 A Binary Headache
13:23 Outro & Credits

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