This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

As part of the first observations with the new GRAVITY instrument the team looked closely at the bright, young stars known as the Trapezium Cluster, located in the heart of the Orion star-forming ...

With masses comparable to that of Jupiter, these entities are often observed in young star clusters, such as the Trapezium Cluster ... such as the Orion Nebula, suggest an origin different from ...