esahubble_opo0019c August 24th, 2000
Credit: C.R. O'Dell and S.K. Wong (Rice University) and NASA/ESA
The brown dwarfs are too dim to be seen in a visible-light image taken by the Hubble telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. This view also doesn't show the assemblage of infant stars seen in the near-infrared image. That's because the young stars are embedded in dense clouds of dust and gas. The Hubble telescope's near-infrared camera, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, penetrated those clouds to capture a view of those objects.
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Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0019c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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