The red spiral over stellar nursery NGC 346 shows the movement of gas and stars to its heart as it feeds star formation. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, A. James (STScI)) Watching a star spiral ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation.Located 15,000 light-years from Earth, at the end of an outer spiral arm of our Milky Way ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

The image shows a region of star formation called NGC 346, where new stars are being born. It’s located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way.

One of the outstanding mysteries of star formation is how stellar nurseries are born and how they evolve. I’m Dr. Nia Imara. I'm an astrophysicist and an artist and this is how stars are born.

Gas and dust swirl in the young star cluster NGC1333, a stellar nursery where objects including stars, planets and brown dwarfs are born. ESA, Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Scholz, K. Muzic, A. Langeveld ...

Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: an energetic stellar nursery.This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, surrounded by the ...

Born 4.6 billion years ago, our star is well into midlife and has wandered far from its ancestral home—some nameless, now vanished “stellar nursery” of gas that long ago dispersed or ...

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