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

The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the Stingray Nebula, the youngest known planetary nebula. The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star ...

Solar prominences are striking features in the solar atmosphere, appearing as fence-like, cloud-like, flame-like, and arch-like structures. Larger ones consist of a central spine, multiple legs ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a population of free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, a star-forming region around 1,400 light-years from Earth. Some of these objects ...

What it is: The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) star-forming region Where it is: 1,400 light-years away, in the constellation Orion When it was shared: March 10, 2025 Why it's so special: What are the ...

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 ...

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 ...