NASA鈥檚 Webb Peers Deeper into Mysterious Flame Nebula | 麻豆传媒: 麻豆传媒 for Journalists

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. Meyer (University of Michigan), A. Pagan (STScI)

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a visible light view from NASA鈥檚 Hubble Space Telescope on the left, while the two insets at the right show the near-infrared view taken by NASA鈥檚 James Webb Space Telescope. Much of the dark, dense gas and dust, as well as the surrounding white clouds within the visible light image, have been cleared in the near-infrared images, giving us a view into a more translucent cloud pierced by the infrared-producing objects within that are young stars and brown dwarfs. Astronomers used Webb to take a census of the lowest-mass objects within this star-forming region.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Meyer (University of Michigan)

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA鈥檚 James Webb Space Telescope highlights three low-mass objects, seen in the insets to the right. These objects, which are much colder than protostars, require the sensitivity of Webb鈥檚 instruments to detect them. These objects were studied as part of an effort to explore the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs within the Flame Nebula.

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