Hidden in the Cosmic Cliffs behind clouds of dust lies a mysterious happening that has intrigued astronomers for years – a "hotbed for star formation." And now, thanks to NASA's James Webb Telescope, ...

Observation of the Cygnus X Region with the flying observatory SOFIA revealed that stars form there more quickly than previously assumed. CREDIT NASA Spitzer/IRAC MIPS, USRA/SOFIA (L. Proudfit, L.

In the latest discovery made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astrophysicists detected six wandering rogue planets unbound from the gravitational influence of any star. The ...

Using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the team's findings, published on March 13 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, show that turbulent conditions in the ...

New findings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are shedding light on star formation in a dynamic cluster that lies within a nebula 200,000 light years away. NGC 346, located in the Small ...

What if the secrets of the early universe are written not in distant galaxies, but in the gas and dust of our galactic neighbors? It is the one question that drives the recent collaborative ...

Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called the Star Formation ...

A gorgeous new image of a nebular 500 light-years away gives a peek into the process of star formation. This image from the Dark Energy Camera shows both the dark cloud of Lupus 3 and the shining ...

Created by a young star, the bipolar star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 in this Hubble image depicts how intense the star-formation process can get. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has used its extraordinary infrared imaging capability to reveal heretofore unseen star formation in the nearby so-called ‘Cosmic Cliffs,’ part of NGC 3324, a star forming ...

Starting from the upper left and moving clockwise from large to small scales: upper left —"spiral-like" system; upper right — "bar-like" structure; lower right — rotating infalling envelope; lower ...