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James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic 'Phoenix' cools off to birth stars
Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...
James Webb Space Telescope unveils region with newborn star: See stunning photo
HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...
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Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
A recipe for baby stars: Just add fluffy molecular clouds
“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...
James Webb telescope captures stunning image in space: Meet Leo P, a special dwarf galaxy
Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...
In ancient stellar nurseries, some stars are born of fluffy clouds
Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...
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'Impossible' pair of vampire stars discovered by Einstein Probe's X-ray vision
The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...
Mission accomplished for space telescope Gaia
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals a Never-Ending Cosmic Firestorm at the Center of the Milky Way
Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
Webb telescope finds Milky Way black hole never stops strobing light
A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...