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!

As part of the first observations with the new GRAVITY instrument the team looked closely at the bright, young stars known as the Trapezium Cluster, located in the heart of the Orion star-forming ...

University of Leiden Study: This team modeled the Orion Trapezium star cluster, a dense region where stars are ... Euclid has detected dozens of rogue planets in the Orion Nebula via microlensing. Its ...

With masses comparable to that of Jupiter, these entities are often observed in young star clusters, such as the Trapezium Cluster ... such as the Orion Nebula, suggest an origin different from ...

Experts say they were spotted in the Orion Nebula - which ... and is the nearest star-forming region to Earth. It contains a number of bright suns at its centre called the Trapezium, and is ...

Dense, dark clouds of gas and dust, known as Bok globules, are blocking light within the NGC 281 emission nebula, which is a region of star formation. The Orion Nebula showcases various stages of ...

With masses comparable to that of Jupiter, these entities are often observed in young star clusters, such as the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion ... in certain regions of space, such as the Orion ...