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 are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...
Images from ALMA telescope provide insight to the earlier years of our universe.
A far infrared image of the Small Magellanic Cloud as observed by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory. Circles indicate the positions observed by the ALMA telescope ...
Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars.
The flash was spotted by the Einstein Probe’s Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT), which uses a novel type of design known as a ...
Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new ...
The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...
A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...