A new study presented at the 235th meeting of the AAS this week shows how star formation is already happening…
The world's largest airborne telescope, SOFIA, has peered into the core of the Milky Way and captured a crisp image…
Using data from the GALACICNUCLEUS survey, a team of astronomers has determined that star formation occurred in massive bursts in…
Neutron stars are the end-state of massive stars that have spent their fuel and exploded as supernovae. There's an upper…
The Orion Nebula is one of the most observed and photographed objects in the night sky. At a distance of…
It's relatively easy for galaxies to make stars. Start out with a bunch of random blobs of gas and dust.…
Imagine yourself in a boat on a great ocean, the water stretching to the distant horizon, with the faintest hints…
We need to talk about the dark ages. No, not those dark ages after the fall of the western Roman Empire.…
A new study by a team of international astronomers has provided the first direct evidence that supermassive black holes affect…
Yippy-ki-yay! Saturn rides the back of a prancing pony across the evening sky. See it the next clear night.