Snow white and the seven dwarfs.

in #science5 years ago (edited)

OK not quite, these are a whole bunch of brown dwarfs.

Brown dwarfs are stars that are somewhat smaller than our sun and because of their diminutive size and lesser mass, never quite graduate to sustained fusion reactions and emitting sunlike amounts of light.

This is just a close up of of a section in the image below.

The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest view ever taken of this region, called the Orion Nebula. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light.

Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula

The faint red stars near the bottom are the myriad brown dwarfs that Hubble spied for the first time in the 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.

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