New simulations suggest a violent collision 11 billion years ago reshaped our Galaxy and triggered a burst of star formation.
This image from the Gemini...
NGC 1266 appears frozen between two cosmic identities, offering astronomers a close-up look at how star formation shuts down.
This Hubble image reveals...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this vivid image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3137, which is located in the constellation...
A new anniversary image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals surprisingly fast evolution in a turbulent stellar nursery called the Trifid Nebula,...
The newly-discovered star, SDSS J0715-7334, formed in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud and migrated to our Milky Way Galaxy billions of years ago,...
Using the High Acuity Wide-field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured a new image of the emission nebula...
With the record-setting image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have mapped the molecular heart of our Milky Way...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have produced a spectacular infrared image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5134.
This Webb image...
The new dark galaxy candidate is dominated by dark matter and nearly devoid of light. Named Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 (CDG-2), the object consists of four...
The Vela Junior supernova, also known as RX J0852.0-4622 or G266.2-1.2, exploded a few thousand years ago, leaving behind a glowing nebula, but scientists...
New observations of the young cluster SPT2349-56 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed unexpectedly scorching intracluster...
Astronomers have released the new results from the CAFFEINE survey, shedding new light on a long-standing mystery: what controls the efficiency of star...
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a portion of the N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy...
NGC 1792 is a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy located in the southern constellation of Columba.
This Hubble image shows the active spiral galaxy...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have released a beautiful new image of part of N159, a massive star-forming cloud located about 160,000...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a luminous galactic center and majestic spiral arms in this new view of NGC 4102.
This Hubble image shows NGC...
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have created the large-scale maps of carbon monoxide (CO)-dark molecular gas for the star-forming complex...
This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed new look at the star-studded spiral galaxy NGC 4571.
This Hubble image shows...
This streamer of gas is channeling matter from the surrounding cloud of a star-forming region in Perseus directly onto a newborn binary star system called...
Located in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, Sagittarius B2 is an enormous molecular cloud of gas and dust roughly 3 million times the mass of the Sun.
Stars,...
