A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ...

Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged ...

But it isn’t stars which researchers were interested in when they looked to the nebula — in this case, they were studying objects called brown dwarfs. Bigger than most planets but smaller than ...