Astronomers have spotted many "red and dead" galaxies in the early universe. These are massive systems that stopped forming ...

The researchers traced gas inflow from ~2,500 astronomical units (AU) to ~40 AU from the protostar. (One AU is the average distance between Earth and the sun.) Their findings, published on September ...

Existing theoretical models will need to adapt to account for this more violent and rapid star formation process. The team plans to use high-resolution telescopes like the Atacama Large ...

Scientists have pierced through a dusty stellar nursery to capture the earliest and most detailed view of a collapsing gas cloud turning into a star, analogous to a baby’s first ultrasound. The ...

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...

Massive star formation (above 8 M⊙) unfolds within dense molecular clouds, where gravitational collapse and angular-momentum conservation give rise to rotating protostellar discs and bipolar outflows.

In a stunning new image that marks the 36th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have captured a breathtaking new view of the Trifid Nebula, a stellar nursery where new stars are ...

Protostellar jets were detected for the first time using ALMA in the Milky Way’s outer region, showing that star formation works similarly in distant, low-metallicity regions, whereas the chemistry ...

Some galaxies spend billions of years churning out stars at a relentless pace — then, almost abruptly, go quiet. Astronomers have watched this transition play out across the universe for decades, but ...

Starting from the upper left and moving clockwise from large to small scales: upper left —"spiral-like" system; upper right — "bar-like" structure; lower right — rotating infalling envelope; lower ...