Scientists have pierced through a dusty stellar nursery to capture the earliest and most detailed view of a collapsing gas cloud turning into a star, analogous to a baby’s first ultrasound. The ...

Existing theoretical models will need to adapt to account for this more violent and rapid star formation process. The team plans to use high-resolution telescopes like the Atacama Large ...

This gas led to the formation of stars and expansion of galaxies during the early stages of the Universe. A new study by an ...

Massive star formation (above 8 M⊙) unfolds within dense molecular clouds, where gravitational collapse and angular-momentum conservation give rise to rotating protostellar discs and bipolar outflows.

Observation of the Cygnus X Region with the flying observatory SOFIA revealed that stars form there more quickly than previously assumed. CREDIT NASA Spitzer/IRAC MIPS, USRA/SOFIA (L. Proudfit, L.

A team of astrophysicists from Nanjing University and University of Bonn have demonstrated that, rather than being random, the mass of new stars born inside a star cluster is actually governed by a ...

The combination of theoretical models and empirical data provides a new perspective for understanding the complex interactions between young stars and their environments. A study led by Paolo Padoan, ...

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...

NAOJ ATERUI III simulations show magnetic fields strip angular momentum from forming protostar pairs at up to 0.7 percent per ...