ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

A jaw-dropping new cosmic picture shows a stellar nursery of newborn stars. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the dramatic view of Pismis 24, a young star cluster in the core of the nearby ...

Some of the galaxy's most spectacular stellar nurseries resemble giant cosmic wagon wheels, with spoke-like structures that scientists say were sculpted by shockwaves from stellar explosions and ...

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaar, L. McCallum et al (2025) Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map ever made of stellar nurseries in our Milky Way galaxy. Using data from the ...

A detailed infrared view of the Galactic Center region of our Milky Way Galaxy. These infrared images are sensitive to the presently forming massive stars there as well as the emission from cool ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered what might be a critical step in the chemical evolution of molecules in cosmic “stellar nurseries.” In these vast clouds of cold gas and dust in ...

Explaining how the most massive stars are born, deep within their stellar nurseries, is one of the most persistent mysteries in modern astronomy. Observations at the Gemini Observatory provide ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is, in many ways, a time machine. It uses infrared vision to peer back over 13.5 billion years to the earliest moments of our universe. But even now, the cosmos is ...

The Taurus Molecular Cloud (TMC-1) imaged by the Herschel Space Observatory. (Credit: ESA/Herschel/NASA/JPL-Caltech; acknowledgement: R. Hurt, JPL-Caltech; CC BY-SA 3 ...

Astronomers have created a vast infrared atlas of five nearby stellar nurseries by piecing together more than one million images. These large mosaics reveal young stars in the making, embedded in ...

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising results about the rate at which high-mass stars form in the galactic center of ...