The process that formed the giant planet Jupiter may also have spawned some of the tiniest and oldest members of our solar system -- millimeter-sized spheres called chondrules, the major part of the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) captured the star as it reaches the end of its life.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The process that formed the giant planet Jupiter may also have spawned some of the tiniest and oldest members of our solar system -- millimeter-sized spheres called chondrules, ...

Officially known as W40, this red butterfly in space is a nebula, or a giant cloud of gas and dust. The “wings” of the butterfly are giant bubbles of gas being blown from the inside out by massive ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released the most detailed view to date of the ominous Lupus 3 dark nebula, one of the closest star formation regions to our Sun. Lupus 3 is located roughly ...

A wave of star formation is crashing through the Omega Nebula, captured in infrared by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The bright nebula in the middle, formally known as M17, has long been recognized ...

Spend three minutes getting lost in space. A video released by NASA this week shows the well-known Orion Nebula in a new way. The 3D visualization of the nebula allows the viewer to get a bird's eye ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

The RosetteNebula, a hotbed of star formation about 5,000 light-years from Earth, isphotographed in a stunning new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. In thecomposite image of the Rosette ...