This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have ...

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For over two decades, astronomers have been perplexed by the existence of planetary-mass objects, or PMOs, celestial bodies with planetary masses but not bound to any star. A recent study published in ...

The Andromeda nebula, M31, was a prominent example ... or “island universes,” but there was no data to support this hypothesis. Island universes referred to the idea that there could be ...

In planetary nebula Hb 12, the model accurately reproduces its characteristic hourglass-shaped outflow structure. For protostar HOPS370, the theory successfully explains the formation mechanism of ...

Deep in space, mysterious wanderers roam freely — of planetary masses yet not hosted by stars. These celestial nomads, called ...

His challenging return-to-prog album The Overview contrasts the collapse of a nebula with a bursting grocery bag in Swindon, all to illustrate that space is “nothingness; it’s scary; it’s death” ...

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

It indicates that the young Earth may have captured gases from the solar nebula, a cloud of hydrogen and helium surrounding the nascent solar system. This hypothesis contradicts traditional models, ...