Star formation

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.

The temperature of the tryptophan is about 280 Kelvin, or 7 degrees Celsius.

Webb also continues to uncover a bounty of distant, young galaxies.

Radiant protostars and shadowy clouds clash in stellar nursery.

The galaxy lies almost 600 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans.