New experiments on thallium decay have helped determine the Sun formed over 10–20 million years, improving stellar ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

A giant stellar nursery shows off its newborn stars in a new photo taken by a powerful telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. The nursery -- known formally as the Orion A molecular cloud -- is ...

Stars are born in "stellar nurseries," or regions of galaxies with an abundance of gas and dust that can become overly dense and collapse to form infant stars, or "protostars." More accurately ...

What made the finding of the new ices surprising was their isolation—such ices are typically found in stellar nurseries. In this new effort, the researchers took a new look at two icy objects by ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Andersen (European Southern Observatory - Germany); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the ...