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Webb’s Infrared Eye Reveals the Heart of the Milky Way

The JWST is taking a break from studying the distant Universe and has trained its infrared eye on the heart…

12 months ago

Star Factories Haven’t Changed Much Over the Entire Age of the Universe

The ancient Universe is weird and secretive. Scientists have made laudable progress in uncovering more and more information on how…

1 year ago

Recent Supernovae Produced Giant Cavities in the Orion Nebula

The Orion Nebula is a well-known feature in the night sky and is visible in small backyard telescopes. Orion is…

2 years ago

Star Formation Begins When Clouds of Gas Crash Into Each Other

To trigger star formation, you need to compress a lot of gas into not a lot of volume. To make…

3 years ago

Hubble Captures Giant Lensed Galaxy Arc

[/caption] Less than a year ago, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 captured an amazing image - a…

13 years ago

Cooking Up Stars In Cygnus X

[/caption] Thanks to the incredible infra-red imagery of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, we're able to take a look into a…

13 years ago

PacMan Nebula Takes A “Bite” Out Of Space

[/caption] If you have a large telescope and an appetite for nebulae, then you've probably seen the Pac Man Nebula.…

13 years ago

Solo Star Synthesis

[/caption] "Swing your partner round and round... Out of the cluster and out of town" While that's a facetious description…

13 years ago

Astronomers Witness Star Birth

[/caption] Astronomers have glimpsed into the birth of a star, and have seen what could be the youngest known star…

14 years ago

Newly-Discovered Stellar Nurseries in the Milky Way

[/caption] Our Milky Way churns out about seven new stars per year on average. More massive stars are formed in…

15 years ago