The JWST is taking a break from studying the distant Universe and has trained its infrared eye on the heart…
The ancient Universe is weird and secretive. Scientists have made laudable progress in uncovering more and more information on how…
The Orion Nebula is a well-known feature in the night sky and is visible in small backyard telescopes. Orion is…
To trigger star formation, you need to compress a lot of gas into not a lot of volume. To make…
[/caption] Less than a year ago, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 captured an amazing image - a…
[/caption] Thanks to the incredible infra-red imagery of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, we're able to take a look into a…
[/caption] If you have a large telescope and an appetite for nebulae, then you've probably seen the Pac Man Nebula.…
[/caption] "Swing your partner round and round... Out of the cluster and out of town" While that's a facetious description…
[/caption] Astronomers have glimpsed into the birth of a star, and have seen what could be the youngest known star…
[/caption] Our Milky Way churns out about seven new stars per year on average. More massive stars are formed in…