Star formation
Star factory at Milky Way’s center seen for the first time
A first representative glimpse of the numerous young stars in the central regions of our home galaxy.
India’s AstroSat witnessing the ‘live’ formation of dwarf galaxies
Shedding light on how dwarf galaxies assemble their stars.
Nearly half the stars in the Galaxy are formed in binary/multiple stellar systems
The denser and more turbulent environments tend to form multiple stars.
NASA’s JWST reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth
NASA’s Webb reveals cosmic cliffs, a glittering landscape of star birth.
Astronomers spotted the most distant astronomical object ever
Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to the oldest stars in the universe.
Astronomers discover the largest molecule yet in a planet-forming disc
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether...
Hubble captured a space triangle
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies creates an unusual space triangle.
A strange new type of star covered in the by-product of helium burning
It is possible that the stars might have been formed by a rare stellar merger event.
Hubble spots a black hole triggering star formation in a dwarf galaxy
Detailed evidence from Hubble shows a black hole in a new light.