Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1. The white “+” marks the location of the protostar. The contour lines indicate signal strength. The colors represent the ...

An international team of astronomers, which includes three researchers affiliated with the Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun, Poland), has succeeded in mapping the protostellar disk with the ...

A striking image made with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals intricate details of Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), the gaseous outflow surrounding a very young star in its earliest stages. The ...

(Nanowerk News) New observations have revealed a spiral pattern in a disk of material around a still forming, but already high-mass, baby star. This indicates that there is gravitational instability ...

As a star forms, a protostellar disk helps to feed material to the nascent “protostar” at its center. For high-mass protostars already exceeding 8 times the mass of the Sun and still growing, it is ...