The new simulations show a cross section of the star and its surrounding disk of gas. In the left image, where the young star is weakly magnetized, gas can be seen flowing freely from the surrounding ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The newest space telescope on the block has spotted a blazing cosmic hourglass filled with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope team announced Thursday that scientists had discovered dozens of energetic jets and outflows from young stars previously hidden by dust clouds in one of the $10 ...

The clearest image yet of planets forming around a star has been unveiled by astronomers working on the ALMA array of radio telescopes in Chile. The image shows a series of concentric rings of ...

The young ones: images of 20 protoplanetary discs taken by ALMA (Courtesy: ALMA) “Stunning” high-resolution images of 20 nearby protoplanetary discs have given astronomers a wealth of new information ...

New images of gas churning inside an ancient starburst galaxy help explain why this galactic firecracker underwent such frenzied star formation. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, ...

A dramatic new image of the Cone Nebula shows the pillar-like cloud of cold, star-forming molecular gas and dust in unprecedented detail. The nebula gets its name from its conical shape and is located ...