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has just released the sharpest infrared images to date of the Horsehead Nebula, a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion that acts as a nursery for newborn stars. Captured in unprecedented ...

Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared ...

That nebula actually creates part of the constellation Orion's sword ... of the photo -- which shows the molecular cloud in near-infrared wavelengths of light -- reveal other fun objects in ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated ...