A star factory at the heart of our galaxy is mysterious and important
The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...
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Extreme magnetic fields near our galaxy's black hole are preventing stars from being born, JWST discovers
Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...
Hubble spots star cluster NGC 346
In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is kicking off the ...
Hubble captures a stunning cradle of stars in neighboring galaxy
The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...
Where Stars Ignite and Black Holes Roar: Hubble Reveals a Galactic Feedback Loop
NGC 4941 dazzles in a new Hubble image, showcasing star-forming regions and a supermassive black hole that dramatically ...
Webb explores effect of strong magnetic fields on star formation
Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...
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Ancient galaxy shines through the clouds of the early universe
New observations have revealed early signs of UV light illuminating the cosmos more than 13 billion years ago.
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Unseen giant molecular cloud detected 23,000 light-years away in the Milky Way
Astronomers have detected a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes ...
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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/Guerra-Alvarado et al., Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around ...
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Webb unveils magnetic fields suppressing star formation in Sagittarius C
Research based on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has ...
Gases structures key in enabling stars’ formation: Milky Way’s cold gas clouds mapped in unprecedented detail
Gupta explained that hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for the formation of stars.
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Sound frequencies of stars sing of our galaxy’s past and future
UNSW researchers interrogated the ‘sounds’ of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.