Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

Stars emerge from vast regions of gas and dust known as molecular clouds. These stellar nurseries, often spanning hundreds of ...

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars. The post ...

The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...

Stars form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), vast clouds of mostly hydrogen that can span tens of light years. These stellar ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from “fluffy” molecular clouds.

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has identified what's causing mysterious lights in the outskirts of ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.