When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found new ...

Observations undertaken by Ralf Launhardt, a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, and colleagues have clinched an important part of the standard scenario for the formation of new ...

MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy ...

Astronomers have discovered something unexpected in the birthplaces of young stars: ultraviolet (UV) radiation where it should not exist. Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that a supermassive black hole can starve its host galaxy of gas needed for star formation, a discovery made while observing a galaxy ...

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...

The formation of stars is intricately linked to the complex structure and dynamics of molecular clouds—vast, cold, and dense regions in the interstellar medium that primarily consist of molecular ...

New findings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are shedding light on star formation in a dynamic cluster that lies within a nebula 200,000 light years away. NGC 346, located in the Small ...

Stars are born, go through middle age, and eventually die. The way a star is formed plays a crucial role in shaping its lifespan. To understand this process, researchers study star-forming regions, ...

Lighting up the universe is a rough-and-tumble business. It is not a bad thing that there are so few stars; quite the opposite. Stars burn gas, mostly hydrogen. All of the hydrogen gas in the universe ...

The findings could help solve the mystery of how the first stars formed. The roughly four-billion-year-old system consists of a black hole and two orbiting stars—a configuration that's never been seen ...