Trapezium Cluster in the Orion Nebula
Probing deep within a neighborhood stellar nursery, the Hubble Space Telescope uncovered a swarm of newborn brown dwarfs. The orbiting observatory's near-infrared camera pierced clouds of gas and dust to reveal about 50 of these objects throughout the Orion Nebula's Trapezium cluster about 1,500 light-years from Earth.
For more information, visit: www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0019b/
For Hubble's view of the same region in visible light, see: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2000/news-2000-19.html
Credit: NASA, K.L. Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.), and G. Schneider, E. Young, G. Rieke, A. Cotera, H. Chen, M. Rieke, R. Thompson (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.)
Trapezium Cluster in the Orion Nebula
Probing deep within a neighborhood stellar nursery, the Hubble Space Telescope uncovered a swarm of newborn brown dwarfs. The orbiting observatory's near-infrared camera pierced clouds of gas and dust to reveal about 50 of these objects throughout the Orion Nebula's Trapezium cluster about 1,500 light-years from Earth.
For more information, visit: www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0019b/
For Hubble's view of the same region in visible light, see: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2000/news-2000-19.html
Credit: NASA, K.L. Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.), and G. Schneider, E. Young, G. Rieke, A. Cotera, H. Chen, M. Rieke, R. Thompson (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.)