Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars

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The faint red stars in this close-up image are the myriad brown dwarfs that Hubble spied for the first time in the Orion Nebula in visible light. Sometimes called "failed stars," brown dwarfs are cool objects that are too small to be ordinary stars because they cannot sustain nuclear fusion in their cores the way our Sun does.

Object Names: Orion Nebula, M42, NGC 1976

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

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The above image is part of a montage:

Montage Image: Close-Up Images of the Orion Nebula Image Type: Astronomical PRC2006-01b

Orion in Miniature Image Type: Astronomical

Pillars of Gas Image Type: Astronomical

The Orion Nebula's Biggest Stars Image Type: Astronomical

Sculpting the Landscape Image Type: Astronomical

Over the Edge Image Type: Astronomical

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