Located in the middle of the nebula, these hot stars, known as the Trapezium cluster, emit harsh ultraviolet radiation that shapes the region.

Newborn stars still wrapped in cocoons of dust and gas are revealed in a new image of the famous Orion Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Orion Bar is the fairly straight, diagonal feature that marks the transition from the hot ionized gas near the Trapezium stars to the cold molecular cloud on the other side of the bar.

An unprecedented view of the inner Orion nebula and the Trapezium cluster, as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST’s) Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.

Welcome to the Orion Nebula Highlights on your tour of the Orion Nebula include the Trapezium Cluster, a group of massive young stars blasting the surrounding gas with powerful ultraviolet radiation.

A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest.

Touring the Orion Bar Several key features, including newborn stars and interstellar gas and dust filaments, are labelled in this Webb Space Telescope image of the Orion Bar.

The latest spectacle, observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, is an agglomeration of nearly 150 free-floating objects amid the Orion Nebula, not far in mass from Jupiter.

The Orion Nebula is famous for its beauty, but it was also the site of a recent exciting scientific discovery. The James Webb Space Telescope has detected an important molecule in a planet-forming ...

These stars are collectively known as the Trapezium Cluster; their ultraviolet radiation is slowly eroding the Orion Bar.

“Breathtaking” images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form.