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Two views of the Trapezium cluster in the Orion Nebula, from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The image on the left, an optical spectrum image taken with Hubble's WFPC2 camera, shows a few stars shrouded in glowing gas and dust. On the right, an image taken with Hubble's NICMOS infrared camera penetrates the haze to reveal a swarm of stars as well as brown dwarfs. Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2000/19

Credits for near-infrared image: NASA; K.L. Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.); and G. Schneider, E. Young, G. Rieke, A. Cotera, H. Chen, M. Rieke, R. Thompson (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.)

Credits for visible-light picture: NASA, C.R. O'Dell and S.K. Wong (Rice University)

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