January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...

Scientists with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are thrilled as the sensitive telescope has detected a special molecule for the first time. The Orion Nebula is a beloved object of the night sky.

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

NASA and the European Space Agency's Hubble telescope captured a rare photo of the Calabash Nebula, a protoplanetary nebula formed from a dying star that's 1.4 light years long and approximately 5,000 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — New observations of the Orion Nebula at infrared wavelengths reveal that small dust grains located in disks around young stars are growing, taking the initial steps toward forming ...

Ultraviolet “winds” from nearby massive stars are stripping the gas from a young star’s protoplanetary disk, causing it to rapidly lose mass, according to a new study. It reports the first directly ...

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This dying star in the constellation of Cygnus will soon complete its transformation into what’s known as a planetary nebula, which will play a vital role in returning enriched elements to the galaxy ...

Young stars twinkle within a rainbow curtain of dust and gas in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The image highlights NGC-6530, an open cluster of a few thousand stars more than ...

What appears to be a cosmic tornado is actually a Herbig-Haro jet. Material is ejected from a young star perpendicular to a protoplanetary disk, thought to be driven by the magnetic fields interacting ...