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

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 ...

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

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

earning the cosmic structure the nickname "flame-throwing guitar." Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope show how the nebula and the pulsar, formally known ...

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 ...

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared view from the Hubble Space Telescope on the left, with infrared views from the James Webb Space Telescope in the insets. (Image ...

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 ...

Why it's so special: What are the smallest stars? A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed free-floating, Jupiter-size objects that ...