The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled ...

JWST reveals EC 53 protostar forges silicates in a hot disk and sends them out through "cosmic highways." ...

The swirling disk around a young star has been found to contain an inventory of seventeen complex organic molecules enough to ...

A team led by Lee Jeong-eun, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Seoul National University, has identified the mechanism by which crystalline silicates form and move in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s 2024 NIRCam image shows protostar EC 53 circled. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus ...

Why are minerals that form only in hot environments found inside cold comets? A domestic research team has found a clue that could solve a question that has long vexed the astronomy community. A team ...

The Hubble Telescope took snapshots of the infant stars, in an effort to understand how larger stars are formed. As part of the Sofia Massive Star Formation Survey, which is investigating how stars – ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming stars at an intense rate from collapsing clouds of dust. Reported in ...

The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of protostars located within dense cosmic dust clouds to investigate the formation processes of massive stars. According to NASA, on January 17, ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, occasionally feasting on infalling material and burping out powerful jets. But ...

Activists build a halau, or long house, on Kahoolawe in 1987. Fifty years ago, nine Native Hawaiians made landfall on Kahoolawe in protest of the Navy’s use of the island as a practice bombing range, ...