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Recent Supernovae Produced Giant Cavities in the Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula is a well-known feature in the night sky and is visible in small backyard telescopes. Orion is…
Star Formation Begins When Clouds of Gas Crash Into Each Other
To trigger star formation, you need to compress a lot of gas into not a lot of volume. To make…
Hubble Captures Giant Lensed Galaxy Arc
[/caption] Less than a year ago, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 captured an amazing image - a…
Cooking Up Stars In Cygnus X
[/caption] Thanks to the incredible infra-red imagery of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, we're able to take a look into a…
PacMan Nebula Takes A “Bite” Out Of Space
[/caption] If you have a large telescope and an appetite for nebulae, then you've probably seen the Pac Man Nebula.…
Solo Star Synthesis
[/caption] "Swing your partner round and round... Out of the cluster and out of town" While that's a facetious description…
Astronomers Witness Star Birth
[/caption] Astronomers have glimpsed into the birth of a star, and have seen what could be the youngest known star…
Newly-Discovered Stellar Nurseries in the Milky Way
[/caption] Our Milky Way churns out about seven new stars per year on average. More massive stars are formed in…
New Images from Planck Reveal Star Formation Processes
[/caption] While most newborn stars are hidden beneath a blanket of gas and dust, the Planck space observatory – with…