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Stars get ripped open like Christmas presents to create strange 'JuMBO' worlds


"I think of JuMBOs as a cross between stars and brown dwarfs - they would have been like stars had it not been for the radiation from the more massive stars, which has sculpted them to be more like brown dwarfs."

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