Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in the universe.

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores ...

Brown dwarfs are hotter and brighter in their youth, and that makes them easier to spot in a young nebula like the Flame Nebula, which is around 1 million years old (if that seems ancient ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA's ...

Webb's image of the Flame Nebula NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Meyer (University of Michigan), Matthew De Furio (UT Austin), Massimo Robberto (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Our universe is host to ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.