The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of ...

Massive stars in the Lobster Nebula carve dramatic shapes into cosmic dust while thousands of glittering young stars emerge ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary view of star birth in the Pismis 24 cluster, revealing its ...

“These fragments may be the remains of once-larger clouds that have been shredded by the enormous energy being released by young and massive stars, a process dubbed feedback,” says Tony Wong, who led ...

The distribution of matter in a nebula is not uniform; some areas are denser while others are thinner. Under the influence of ...

If "chaos is a ladder," then brilliant stars forming from discordant gas and dust are the ultimate example of that. The James ...

The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, illustrating how hot, bright stars at the heart of the Rosette are ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

The boundary between planets and stars is a bit muddled up. Sure, it is clear why the Earth is different from the Sun – but when you have gas giants like Jupiter and stellar objects like brown dwarfs ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently peered into one-third of a unique nebula. The revolutionary telescope studies the cosmos in the infrared, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous ...

This colorful composite, captured by the now-defunct Spitzer Space Telescope, shows dark, smoky filaments snaking across a portion of the Nessie Nebula. In the center bottom of the image, a giant tear ...