New Spitzer Study Analyzes the Era of Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters
By observing the last major growth spurt of galaxy clusters, which happened billions of years ago, a newly published Spitzer study examines the rise and…
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Hubble Views a Stellar “Sneezing Fit”
This newly released Hubble image shows bursts of gas from a young star creating structures known as Herbig-Haro objects. Look at the bright star in…
Whirlpool Galaxy Changes Astronomers Understanding of Giant Molecular Clouds
New research challenges astronomers’ traditional views about stellar birthplaces, finding that giant molecular clouds are embedded in a kind of molecular fog, which permeates the…
New Research Implies That Current Theories of Star Formation are Incomplete
A new study from an international team of researchers has measured the lowest dust mass of a galaxy to date, leaving the researchers to believe…
Study Reveals the Explosive Growth of a Newly Formed Star in the Milky Way
New research reveals the explosive growth of a young star, detailing that the newly formed star had such an explosive growth that it was initially…
Researchers Simulate the Formation of Massive Stars from Turbulent Molecular Clouds
Using the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, researchers perform large-scale supercomputing simulations of massive stars forming from the collapse of giant,…
New Algorithm Allows Astronomers to Track the Process of Star Formation in the Early Universe
Astronomers have developed a new computational algorithm that allows them to follow the star formation process down to the very small scales, tracking the development…
Spitzer and ALMA Reveal Stellar Birth
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a newly published study reveals a new look at stellar birth. It’s…
Astronomers Discover “Old Young” Stars in the Eagle Nebula
While studying 110 stars located in the Eagle Nebula, astronomers discovered pre-main-sequence stars that were red in color and showed evidence for accretion, but were…
New Model Shows How a Collapsing Star Results in Two Black Holes that Form and Fuse
A new study from researchers at Caltech details the collapse of rapidly rotating supermassive stars that formed in the early Universe. The study shows that…
A Rare View of a Planetary Construction Site in an Intermediate State of Evolution
Using the Herschel Space Observatory and ALMA, researchers have discovered that the unusual disk around the star HD 21997 appears to contain both primordial gas…
Astronomers Shed New Light on the Rarest and Brightest Exploding Stars
A newly published study sheds new light on star death, finding that the brightest supernovae are the result of a type of explosion within the…
New Survey Maps Where Stars Are Born
Astronomers have completed the largest-ever survey of dense gas clouds in the Milky Way, cataloging and mapping more than 6,000 gas clouds and allowing astronomers…
Observations Reveal How Interstellar Dust Grains Align
In a newly published study, astronomers report key observations that confirm a theory on how dust grains in interstellar space spin and organize themselves in…
A Jet of Energetic Particles Reveals How Stars Begin Their Final Transformation
A newly discovered jet of high-energy particles emanating from a dying star has helped scientists better understand how stars begin their final transformation. An international…
Astronomers Observe a Possible Planet-Forming Disk around the Young Star RY Tau
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to observe a disk around the young star RY Tau, finding that a “fluffy” layer above the disk appears to…
New Theory Shows How ‘Zombie Vortices’ Play a Role in Star Formation
A new theory from researchers at UC Berkeley explains how “zombie vortices” help lead to the birth of a new star. Reporting in the journal…
Hubble Views a Very Young Star Being Born
In this newly released image Hubble views a young star being born in the gas, dust, and ices of the dark cloud LDN 43. Don’t…