Star Formation in the Flame Nebula
Star Formation in the Flame Nebula
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Located about 1,400 light-years away in the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) is a hotbed of star formation less than one million years old. It is home to cosmic objects that are not quite planets but are also too small for their cores to sustain hydrogen fusion like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs.
Brown dwarfs are very dim and much cooler than stars, which makes them difficult to detect. When young, they are slightly warmer and brighter, making active star-forming regions like the Flame Nebula ideal places to search for them.
Building on decades of data from Hubble, Webb’s infrared capabilities allow astronomers to study these faint and historically obscured objects in greater detail. Observing them in such a young region helps researchers explore the lowest mass limit for brown dwarfs and better understand the full range of objects formed in stellar nurseries like this one.
Image courtesy of NASA, ESA/Webb
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