The Orion nebula is one of the most studied regions of our sky.
It sits amidst the constellation of Orion, between the stars, and is so large, close, and bright it can be seen with the naked eye: a vast cloud complex giving birth to and nurturing baby stars.
"We are blown away by the breathtaking images of the Orion Nebula. We started this project in 2017, so we have been waiting more than five years to get these data,""These new observations allow us to better understand how massive stars transform the gas and dust cloud in which they are born.
The very nature of this process means it's hard to see: all that dust and gas blocks light from escaping out to show us what's inside. This comparison with an optical Hubble image of the same region shows how effectively JWST reveals what's under the dust. Other objects in the image include globules and a young growing star with a disk of material around it. That disk is being evaporated from the outside by the radiation from the Trapezium stars. Nearly 180 of these objects, calledThe brightest star you see in the image is called θ2 Orionis A, and it's one member of a multiple-star system next to the Trapezium Cluster, which is also known as θ1 Orionis.
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