Webb’s infrared capabilities are ideal for revealing how stars and planets form for three reasons: Infrared light is great at seeing through obscuring dust, it picks up the heat signatures of ...

Computer simulation solves mystery of how massive stars form without blowing off the gas that feeds them.

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which ...

In today’s lesson, we’ll have: What’s the difference between a “dwarf” and “giant” star? How are stars born? What happens when stars die?

Astronomers analyzing 3D maps of the shapes and sizes of nearby molecular clouds have discovered a gigantic cavity in space. The sphere-shaped void, described today in then Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) ...

Indeed, observations of star clusters provided the main evidence for today's accepted theory of how individual stars evolve over time.

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...