NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to Accidentally Discover Hundreds of Brown Dwarfs
Today, astronomers announced that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) accidentally discovered a population of brown dwarfs that had previously been undetected. Brown dwarfs are objects that are too large to be considered planets but too small to be considered stars, and they have often been overlooked due to their low luminosity. The JWST detected these brown dwarfs in the Carina-Near star-forming region, an area of space that is close enough to Earth to be studied in detail. The discovery of these objects could help to further our understanding of star formation and give us new insight into the origins of our universe.
source: Phys.org