A group of researchers has recently identified an ancient component of the Milky Way, named the original galactic disk, or ...

"These ancient stars in the disk suggest that the formation of the ... us to increase the number of stars with high quality stellar parameters, a key step to lead our team to these new insights." ...

Star formation in the early universe was a vigorous process that created gigantic stars. Called Population III stars, these ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...

Given that NGC 300 lies in a relative isolation, it makes it an ideal candidate for studying its stellar halo without the influence of a nearby massive companion. Moreover, its disk is nearly face ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic neighbor to the Milky Way. The new mosaic of about 2.5 billion pixels yields ...

The extension of the single MF into the brown dwarf regime is in good agreement with present estimates of L‐ and T‐dwarf densities and yields a disk brown dwarf number density comparable to the ...