Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Strampelli (STScI)

This image is part of a Hubble Space Telescope survey for low-mass stars,

brown dwarfs, and planets in the Orion Nebula. Each symbol identifies a

pair of objects, which can be seen in the symbol's center as a single dot

of light. Special image processing techniques were used to separate the

starlight into a pair of objects. The thicker inner circle represents the

primary body, and the thinner outer circle indicates the companion. The

circles are color-coded: Red for a planet; orange for a brown dwarf; and

yellow for a star. Located in the upper left corner is a planet-planet pair

in the absence of a parent star. In the middle of the right side is a pair of

brown dwarfs. The portion of the Orion Nebula measures roughly 4 by 3

light-years.

Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute

Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2018/news-2018-03

Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA

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