New study challenges existing knowledge for why galaxies stop forming stars
Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars.A galaxy’s central black hole and its…
Astronomers detect tiny gas drift in Taurus dark cloud that could kick-start star birth
A star’s first step toward life may be quieter than astronomers once imagined. Researchers studying a dark cloud…
Astronomers Detect the Hidden Process That May Trigger Star Birth
The illustration shows ambipolar diffusion in a collapsing prestellar core. Neutral molecules decouple from the magnetic field and…
Astronomers Uncover Hidden Structures Surrounding Orion Nebula
Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) s and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST),…
Where did the universe’s oldest star clusters come from? A new study has an answer |
For decades, astronomers have searched for the birthplace of globular clusters, the dense spherical collections of stars that…
Nasa’s Hubble captures a spectacular red, white and blue stellar nursery where thousands of stars are being born |
A striking new image released by NASA offers a rare, close up look at one of the busiest…
Hubble Detects Ultraviolet Light from Tiny Starburst Galaxy in Early Universe
Just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, MXDFz4.4 — a galaxy 100 times smaller than the Milky…
Astronomers map a magnetic “skeleton” funneling gas into a stellar nursery | MIT News
Stars form when vast clouds of cold gas in space collapse under their own gravity. But not all…
Astronomers Find Four Separate Generations of Stars in ‘Globular Cluster’ Terzan 5
A globular cluster typically has only one ancient star population. New data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space…
Astronomers Trace Elusive High-Energy Neutrino to Star-Forming Galaxy in Early Universe
JCMT0402-0424, a dusty starburst galaxy around 11 billion light-years away, is the strongest candidate yet for the source…
Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found
A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…
The Edge of Our Galaxy Eluded Scientists for Years. They Finally Found It.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have long wondered where the Milky Way’s edge…