Over the next decade, several very powerful telescopes will come online. Observing time on these 'scopes will be in high…
Astronomy is advancing to the point where we can see planets forming around young stars. This was an unthinkable development…
Astronomers like observing distant young stars as they form. Stars are born out of a molecular cloud, and once enough…
Messier 110 (NGC 205) is a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy. It's a dwarf elliptical galaxy, a common type of…
Astronomers have captured the earliest image yet of the formation of planets around a young star.
Dr. Andrea Ghez has spent much of her career studying the region right around the center of the Milky Way,…