star formation
Fireworks Erupt From Newborn Star
Just in time for summer fireworks season, the Hubble science team has released an image of Herbig-Haro 110, a young…
The Care And Feeding Of Teenage Galaxies… And By The Way, They Need Gas
[/caption] Got a teenager? Then you know the story. Go to look for your favorite bag of chips and they're…
Astronomers See Stars Changing Right Before Their Eyes in Orion Nebula
[/caption] A gorgeous new image from the tag team effort of the Herschel and Spitzer Space telescopes shows a rainbow…
Young Star Cluster In Disintegrated Galaxy Reveals First-Ever Intermediate Mass Black Hole
[/caption] Score another first for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope! Along with observations taken with the Swift X-ray telescope, a team…
‘Dark Markings of the Sky’ are Hiding Star Formation
[/caption] This stunning new image shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. The makeup of…
Starbursts May Actually Destroy Globular Clusters
[/caption] It seems logical to assume that long ago, the amount of globular clusters increased in our galaxy during star-making…
Emerging Supermassive Black Holes Choke Star Formation
[/caption] Located on the Chajnantor plateau in the foothills of the Chilean Andes, ESO's APEX telescope has been busy looking…
Citizen Scientist Project Finds Thousands of ‘Star Bubbles’
[/caption] Remember when you were a kid and blowing bubbles was such great fun? Well, stars kind of do that…
“Proplyd-like” Objects Discovered in Cygnus OB2
[/caption] The well known Orion Nebula is perhaps the most well known star forming regions in the sky. The four…
Clusters of Stars Crackle and Pop to Tell the Story of Star Formation
[/caption] Astronomers trying to understand the formation of massive clusters of stars are getting a better idea of how the…