The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years ... "The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and ... has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for ...

For lightweight (or low-mass) stars like our sun ... This phenomenon is known as a planetary nebula (though it has nothing to do with planets), and it lasts for just 20,000 years — which ...

Even when viewed using binoculars, the nebula appears to be fuzzy ... After all, we already know that in the galaxy, high-mass stars are rare, while low-mass stars are abundant.

Low-mass stars (including the Sun ... Seen today, roughly a thousand years later, its remnant, called the Crab Nebula, is one of the most interesting objects in the sky. It can be found with ...

NASA, ESA, CSA/Mark McCaughrean & Sam Pearson The Orion Nebula is a region of star formation 1,350 light ... missing something about how these very low mass objects form,” Dr. Bate said.

"For low-mass stars like our sun ... but also can disrupt radio signals and navigation systems. An image of the nebula released with the study is visually striking.

Drifting through the Orion Nebula – an enormous cloud of dust ... "We've been careful in our analysis to rule out reddened low-mass background stars as potential contaminants," he says.

If confirmed, the object would be the first known “hypervelocity” very low-mass star, according to a team of astronomers and citizen scientists whose study has been accepted for publication in ...