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.…
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.…