This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

has just released the sharpest infrared images to date of the Horsehead Nebula, a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion that acts as a nursery for newborn stars. Captured in unprecedented ...

The background is the near-infrared image of Orion A obtained by JWST (credit: NASA/ESA/CSA), and Orion KL locates just beside the central brightest star. Lower-left corner shows the picture of TMRT.