How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

M any know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion's Sword as a bright diffuse nebula - a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a dark ...

This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Deep in space, mysterious wanderers roam freely — of planetary masses yet not hosted by stars. These celestial nomads, called ...

Orion Nebula (Mike Lynch) If your optics are powerful ... These four stars, also known as the Trapezium, were born out of this giant cloud of hydrogen gas an estimated 10 to 100 million years ...

For over two decades, astronomers have been perplexed by the existence of planetary-mass objects, or PMOs, celestial bodies ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best must-see attractions ... These four stars, also known as the Trapezium, were born out of this giant cloud of hydrogen gas an estimated 10 million to 100 million ...

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 ...