The Orion Nebula may be a familiar and well-studied celestial object, but new images from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Using JWST, astronomers confirmed that some proplyds in the Orion Nebula surround brown dwarfs, providing new insights into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is shedding light on mysteries surrounding brown dwarfs, following decades of questions ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have started to reveal the Orion Nebula in glorious detail, showcasing the brilliant swirling clouds of dust and gas that will give rise to ...

Like a birth in reverse, the two galaxies will one day collide and become one. Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth in ...

the Orion Nebula, M42, is visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

From the mysterious 'Pillars of Creation' to the iconic Horsehead nebula, check out these 7 breathtaking images of Nebulae ...

Infrared image of the center of the Orion Nebula taken with the NIRCam instrument on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope with inserts marking protoplanetary disks around failed star brown dwarfs.

More information: K. L. Luhman et al, JWST/NIRSpec Observations of Brown Dwarfs in the Orion Nebula Cluster, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.10000 ...

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