Star formation

When baby stars fledge.

Star-forming regions are able to hang on to their gas and dust.

The stars move across the night sky, over long periods like 10 years, and short periods of around six months.

Intense flashes of light, not mass, resolve the puzzle of impossible brightness.

When the stars align!

First observational evidence of gamma-ray emission in young Sun-like stars.

More intimate, more complex.

Webb spotlights gravitational arcs in ‘El Gordo’ galaxy cluster.

Old stars roaming through new star-forming regions could be responsible for a radioactive heat source.

This is the farthest that such structures have been observed.

It is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe.

NASA’s Webb identifies the earliest strands of the cosmic web.