Tag Archive for 'Flame Nebula'

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from Hubble on the left, while the two insets at the right show the near-infrared view taken by Webb. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / M. Meyer, University of Michigan / A. Pagan, STScI.

Webb Focuses on Flame Nebula’s Brown Dwarfs

Mar 11, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have explored the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs within the Flame Nebula, a hotbed of...

The Flame Nebula is the large feature on the left half of the central, yellow rectangle. The smaller feature on the right is the reflection nebula NGC 2023. To the top right of NGC 2023, the iconic Horsehead Nebula seems to emerge heroically from the ‘flames.’ The three objects are part of the Orion cloud, a giant gas structure located between 1,300 and 1,600 light-years away. The different colors indicate the velocity of the gas. The Flame Nebula and its surroundings are moving away from us, with the red clouds in the background receding faster than the yellow ones in the foreground. Image credit: ESO / Thomas Stanke / J. Emerson / VISTA / Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit.

Radio Astronomers Take Close Look at Flame Nebula

Jan 5, 2022 by News Staff

Using the recently-installed SuperCam instrument on ESO’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in the Atacama Desert, Chile, astronomers have produced...

This Hubble image shows a part of the Flame Nebula, a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / K. Stapelfeldt, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America.

Hubble Looks for Protoplanetary Objects in Flame Nebula

Nov 24, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted several ‘proplyds’ and ‘globulettes’ in the Flame Nebula. This Hubble image...

This Hubble image shows the Flame Nebula. Image credit: Hubble / NASA / ESA / N. Da Rio, University of Virginia / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America.

Hubble Snaps Brilliant Image of Flame Nebula

Nov 22, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shot this image of a large star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula. This Hubble image shows the Flame Nebula....