The Orion Nebula is a region of star formation 1,350 light-years from Earth, located in the belt of the northern hemisphere constellation of Orion. It has long been studied by astronomers, ...

The inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument. This is a composite image from several filters that represents emissions from ionized gas ...

Jupiter-sized objects in Orion Nebula baffle scientists The new entities, nicknamed ‘JuMBOs’, are neither stars nor planets. And they shouldn’t exist, researchers say.

The James Webb Space Telescope spent part of its weekend studying a fascinating inner region of the Orion Nebula. Orion is a familiar constellation in the night sky, recognizable by the “belt ...

JWST also captured this northern region of the Orion Nebula. The researchers say a frog-like structure can be spotted in this image. NASA, ESA, CSA, PDRs4All ERS Team, S. Fuenmayor. The Orion ...

The inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument. Image: NASA/ESA/CSA/PDRs4All ERS Team/S Fuenmayor.

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope show that a compact disk of gas and dust around a young star in the Orion Nebula is losing massive amounts of hydrogen each year.The disk, known as a ...

About the Orion Nebula. This image of the Orion Nebula cloudscape is one of 520 that create a co m posite mosaic image of the entire nebula. It is currently the sharpest image of the region to date.

This image from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows a small region of the Orion Nebula. At the center of this view is a young star system with a protoplanetary disk named d203-506. An ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image of the Orion Nebula that sits 1,350 light years from Earth - one light-year is about six trillion miles.

DURING the night of September 30 I succeeded in photographing the bright part of the nebula in Orion in the vicinity of the trapezium. The photographs show the mottled appearance of this region ...