James Webb telescope reveals first images of Orion Nebula, the birthplace of stars and planets Ivan Semeniuk Science Reporter Published September 12, 2022 Updated September 13, 2022 ...

Located in the constellation of Orion, the Hunter, the Horsehead is part of a dense cloud of gas in front of an active star-forming nebula known as IC434.© T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble ...

This annotated image of the Orion Nebula taken by JWST shows planet-forming disks of gas and dust around a young star. These disks are being dissipated or 'photo-evaporated' due to the strong ...

In the Orion Nebula lies a host of bizarre, teardrop-shaped objects. They look like strange comets, but are in fact evaporating, planet-forming disks around young stars.

The telescope’s infrared equipment fixated squarely on the Orion Nebula, a galactic breeding ground for new stars whose mass is roughly 2,000 times that of the sun. The nebula can be seen all ...

The Orion Nebula Cluster, located about 1,350 light-years away and only 2.5 million years old, contains roughly 4,000 stars packed into a compact, gas-rich region.

At the end of 2023, astronomers made a startling discovery in the Orion Nebula. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team found 40 pairs of planetary mass objects — none of which ...

Astronomers have released an image of a vast filament of star-forming gas, 1,200 light-years away, in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula. The image shows ammonia molecules within a 50-light-year ...

Three of the most popular targets for astronomers of all skill levels are the Seven Sisters (the Pleiades), the Hyades and the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), which is the central "star" in Orion’s ...

The Orion nebula, seen here via the European Space Agency's Hershel Space Observatory, is the closest large region of star formation to Earth. Within it, hydrocarbons, one of the building blocks ...