We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Astronomers have discovered the first step in planet birth, finding hitherto unseen structures in 78 planetary disks in the ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of ...

Stellar nurseries, where new stars bloom to life, are thick clouds of gas and dust, a.k.a. molecular clouds.JWST can see through the clouds to observe star formation in real-time, offering the ...

Stellar nurseries are incredibly complex, and they have this beautiful, intricate structure weaving throughout them. We know that that structure is intimately tied to the birth of stars.

The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile has shared its initial images. These images showcase cosmic wonders like the Trifid and ...

The powerful device will scan the sky like never before, capturing vast amounts of data to reveal how the universe changes ...

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

Hidden views of vast stellar nurseries Date: May 11, 2023 Source: ESO Summary: Astronomers have created a vast infrared atlas of five nearby stellar nurseries by piecing together more than one ...

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries. The views were created by "piecing together more than one million ...

Most disks observed were about 30 astronomical units wide, roughly 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. The presence of intricate structures in such early systems implies a parallel evolution of infant ...