esahubble_heic0601f January 11th, 2006
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
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.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0601f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Telescope | Spectral Band | Wavelength | |
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Hubble (ACS) | Infrared (Z) | 850.0 nm | |
Hubble (ACS) | Infrared (I) | 775.0 nm | |
Hubble (ACS) | Optical (H-alpha) | 658.0 nm | |
Hubble (ACS) | Optical (V) | 555.0 nm | |
Hubble (ACS) | Optical (B) | 435.0 nm | |
Additional observational data from the WFI instrument on the ESO.MPG 2.2-metre telescope. |
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
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