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Orion Nebula is the nearest region of massive star formation to Earth, located just 1,344 light years away.
This spectacular image of the Orion Nebula star-formation region was obtained from multiple... [+] exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Image credit: ESO/H. Drass et al.
With over 1,000 new stars discovered inside, mostly through the power of high-resolution visible light imaging, we had thought that low-mass, red dwarf stars were the most common type formed.
The visible-light image composite created by the Hubble Space Telescope team back in 2004-2006.... [+] Image credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team.