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 ...

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

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

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies have just been unveiled ...

In a stunning peek into how planets are born, astronomers caught millimeter-sized dust grains clinging to the windy walls of ...

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

Breathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly ...

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

However, these regions formed fewer stars—and topped out at a lower stellar mass—than the Galactic average. “These Galactic Center star-forming regions are in many ways very similar to the massive ...

This is Hubble's second image of NGC 346 in less than a year. In August 2024, the observatory captured a smattering of the cradle's stellar inhabitants in ultraviolet and visible light. The image ...

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 ...