While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it's actually full of new life. Lupus 3 is a ...
Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the scientists honed in on stars, all between one and eight times the mass of the sun, ...
When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...
Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous, spherical mass of plasma, enough to hold itself together under its own gravity. On its own, though, gravitational rounding isn't enough. What ...
Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...
Stars form in the universe from massive clouds of gas. European Southern Observatory, CC BY-SA For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars ...
A twisting black hole jet is pushing gas across a star-forming galaxy, revealing how black holes can reshape disks from the ...
Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...