Just as people of the same age can vary greatly in appearance and shape, so do collections of stars or stellar aggregates. New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that ...

Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...

What can fast-spinning stars known as “blue lurkers” teach us about star formation and evolution? This is what a recent study being presented at the 245th American Astronomical Society meeting hopes ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, operated by NASA and ESA, has captured a stunning, high-resolution image of the barred spiral ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics marks a significant milestone in our understanding of the formation and dynamical evolution of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters ...

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look ...

A research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved a significant breakthrough through international collaboration. They utilized the Atacama ...

Massive stars profoundly alter the physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium through intense radiation, stellar winds, and ultimately supernova explosions, thus driving the formation ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...