U-M Astronomers Peer Deeper into Mysterious Flame Nebula

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Contact Matt Davenport, Originally published by VP for Communications-Michigan News

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, a team of researchers, including astronomers from the University of Michigan, are closing in on the answer to a looming cosmic question.

In probing the Flame Nebula, they’re finding out what’s the smallest celestial body that can form on its own from clouds of gas and dust in space.