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

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 ...

“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 ...

Located about 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, lies a small open star cluster known as Pismis 24.

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

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

The Orion Nebula may be a familiar and well-studied celestial object, but new images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show this star-forming cloud of gas and dust in an incredibly new and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just unveiled a new image of the Butterfly Nebula, and it isn’t just beautiful—it ...

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 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 ...