Infrared Dark Clouds With Massive Young Stars Early in Formation
Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are dark patches of cold dust and gas seen in the sky against the bright diffuse infrared glow of warm dust…
Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are dark patches of cold dust and gas seen in the sky against the bright diffuse infrared glow of warm dust…
98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other heavier elements such…
The search for signatures of quantum gravity forges ahead. From a distance, sand dunes seem flat and wrinkle-free, like silk sheets covering the desert. However,…
One of the characteristic features of modern cosmology is its description of how galaxies evolve: via a hierarchical process of colliding and merging with other…
Don’t look now – but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe. But in a change from reports of…
Stephen Hawking’s last theory, co-developed with Thomas Hertog, posits a simpler, finite universe, contrasting with conventional theories of eternal inflation and an infinite multiverse. Based…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare…
Resembling a butterfly with only one wing, this glowing nebula hides a budding star. This ethereal image, captured from Chile by the international Gemini Observatory,…
Testing a new, direct method for determining the masses of supermassive black holes. Astronomers of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have, for the first…
“There need to be more building blocks than the ones we know about,” says the particle physicist. Kerstin Perez is searching for imprints of dark…
By looking at the range of isotopic variations in terrestrial and meteoritic samples, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and collaborators have figured out…
Astronomers Capture Red Supergiant’s Death Throes “For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode,” researcher says. For the first time ever, astronomers…
Gemini Observatory helps reveal that a stream of old stars at Milky Way’s edge is a shredded star cluster. A primordial stellar stream discovered in…
Debris disks around main-sequence stars are tenuous belts of dust thought to be produced when asteroids or other planetesimals collide and fragment. They are common:…
Magnetic fields are the essential, but often “secret” ingredients of the interstellar medium and the process of making stars. The secrecy shrouding interstellar magnetic fields…
Orion offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year in this new image from the European Southern Observatory…
An instrument made by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics has helped verify that — for the first time in history — a…
Observations of a distant stellar flare could contain the first evidence of coronal rain on a cool, small M-dwarf star. High-resolution spectroscopic observations of a…