As Carl Sagan famously said, “we are made of star stuff.” Our scientists investigate the mechanisms that lead to star and planet formation, and how these affect the extent of habitable real estate in ...
The Solar System was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud called a nebula, mainly made up of hydrogen gas and dust. The nebula collapsed under its own gravity and, as it did ...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund ...
A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 ...
Different stages of star formation can be measured in different ways, a number of which involve so-called emission lines – narrow regions within the electromagnetic spectrum where an object emits much ...
HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.