Different stages of star formation can be measured in different ways, a number of which involve so-called emission lines – narrow regions within the electromagnetic spectrum where an object emits much ...

Star clusters are the birth places of almost all stars ... This research is enabling us to understand whether our Solar System is the typical outcome of the planet formation process, or whether our ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

Cepheus B, a molecular cloud located in our Milky Galaxy about 2,400 light years from the Earth, provides an excellent model to determine how stars are formed. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic ... YSOs are distributed on the outskirts of N79—a process known as mass segregation.

An international team of scientists have modelled formation and evolution of strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.