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Hubble Sees a Dense Cloud of Gas and Dust That’s About to Become a Star

The process of star birth begins in a shroud of gas and dust. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) excels...

Too Many Supernovae Can Slow Star Formation in a Galaxy

Interstellar winds are powerful agents of change. For one thing, they can interrupt or shut down the process...

Another Version of the Pillars of Creation from Webb

The hits just keep on streaming back to Earth from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This time, arriving...

Hubble Looks at Newly Forming Stars in a Stellar Nursery

When we look at images of star birth regions, they look both placid and active at the same time....

A Black Hole is Hurling a jet of Material at its Neighboring Galaxy

It’s been a banner time for black hole research! In recent months, astrophysicists have announced the discovery of the...

In Wildly Different Environments, Stars End Up Roughly the Same

When you look at a region of the sky where stars are born, you see a cloud of gas...

This is How You Get Multiple Star Systems

Stars form inside massive clouds of gas and dust called molecular clouds. The Nebular Hypothesis explains how that...

A Star has Grown Spiral Arms

Astronomers using the ALMA Observatory have discovered an unusual, massive star near the center of our galaxy, a star...

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