Image of the inner Orion Nebula and Trapezium Cluster by James Webb Space Telescope (IMAGE)

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters

Image of the inner Orion Nebula and Trapezium Cluster by James Webb Space Telescope

Caption

This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars.

Credit

NASA, ESA, CSA /M. McCaughrean, S. Pearson

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License

Public Domain

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