The survey of the Orion Nebula revealed 13 free-floating planets and over 100 young brown dwarfs. The discovery was made by Dr. Philip Lucas and Dr. Patrick Roche using a new camera on the UK Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. The Orion Nebula is a region where new stars are forming.

1. Planets & Moon by Stewart Fitzgerald The most sensitive survey ever undertaken of the region in the Orion Nebula where new stars are forming has revealed 13 "free-floating planets" as well as more than one hundred very young brown dwarfs. The discovery was made by Dr Philip Lucas of the University of Hertfordshire and Dr Patrick Roche of the University of Oxford using a new camera on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii.

2. Mercury/Venus and Spica

3. Lagoon nebula

4. Jupiter/Venus conjunction

5. lunar halo

6. Moon and Venus at dusk over city lights of El Cajon, CA

7. Moon and Venus in Gemini at dawn, with reflections

8. Full moon setting at dawn over Lake Murray, San Diego

9. Waning crescent moon, Venus and Jupiter at dawn over a mountain lake

11. Geminid meteor streaking from radiant in Gemini, Dec. 14, 1994

12. Comet Halley rising at dawn over Imperial Valley, Feb. 22, 1986, from Laguna Mountains, CA

13. Comet Hale-Bopp, Mar. 2, 1997, over Carrizo Badlands, Anza-Borrego Desert, CA

15. Moon and winter stars rising over pine forest, Laguna Mountains, CA

16. Summer Triangle and cirrus clouds over pinyon pine, Anza-Borrego Desert, CA

17. Big Dipper and Little Dipper over Anza-Borrego Desert, California

18. Great Square of Pegasus and Saturn (left) over Anza-Borrego Desert, CA

20. Eclipsed moon setting at dawn, April 25, 1986

21. Totality, lunar eclipse of Sep. 26. 1996

23. Summer Milky Way over pine tree crowns, Laguna Mountains, CA

24. Summer Milky Way over the Watchman, Zion National Park, UT

26. All-night exposure of stars rising over Tyee Lakes, Sierra Nevada

27. Gemini star trails rising over Cedar Creek Falls, San Diego County, CA

28. Colorful star trails setting toward southwest

30. Sunset over Pacific Ocean from Cowles Mountain, San Diego, CA

31. Cumulonimbus building above Palomar Mountain, San Diego County, CA

32. 22° -ice-crystal halo around sun

33. Dawn's glow on altostratus clouds, Cuyamaca Lake, San Diego County, CA