Originally published at: Webb telescope spots baby Jupiters in distant nebula - Boing Boing
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My son’s godmother is the Senior Project Scientist at NASA for the JWST, and we couldn’t be prouder of her, but my son is a little annoyed that she’s refusing to name any celestial objects after him. Not one galaxy, nebula, star or even a puny exoplanet. Something about “rules” for such things that she claims are out of her hands. No fun!
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More of these awesome stories, please!
Space is such a beautiful mystery.
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She needs to hijack JWST for the weekend and look for Kuiper Belt Objects, asteroids is the Wild West of naming.
These kinds of stories are always exciting but I worry about the results. People see how adorable baby jupiters are and forget that adopting a planet is a many-billions-of-lifetimes worth of responsibility. You can’t just flush them down the toilet or drop them at the shelter once they stop being babies and start being willful adolescents. Perhaps the article should contain a link to a no-kill shelter where people could consider adopting an older planet in need of a caring home. I understand there’s a lovely M-class planet in the Sol system whose former owners have treated it rather poorly.
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Plus, a Jupiter that’s not fully developed yet might eat one or several of your other planets.
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