On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns ... Indeed, astronomers have recorded a wave of star formation moving from northwest to southeast through the region of the sky ...

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...

Situated 1,300 light-years away beneath the three stars of Orion’s Belt, the nebula is a hotspot for star formation, where young protostars emerge from dense clouds of gas and dust. Hubble’s ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores ...

Star formation is a very active field both in ... PDRs4All pointed Webb toward the Orion Bar, deep within the famous Orion Nebula, and collected a treasure trove of images and spectroscopic ...

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

LBN 483 is particularly interesting in that it does not seem to be part of a larger star-forming region like the Orion Nebula ... numerical simulations of star formation so that they can replicate ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects, celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size, come into existence? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula ... more about the process of star formation. (Beverly Lynds was an ...