Where do they come from, those beguiling singularities that flummox astrophysicists—and the rest of us. Sure, we understand the processes…
The Milky Way has a number of satellite galaxies; nearly 60 of them, depedending on how we define them. One…
Astronomers like observing distant young stars as they form. Stars are born out of a molecular cloud, and once enough…
Stars exhibit all sorts of behaviors as they evolve. Small red dwarfs smolder for billions or even trillions of years.…
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.…