Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton telescope have made an unexpected discovery—two supernova remnants ...
The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star-forming region within a nearby satellite ...
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
Rare X-ray flash XRT 200515 spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud Scientists suggest a neutron star or magnetar as a possible source Future observations may reveal a new cosmic phenomenon ...
New evidence suggests that conditions in the early universe may have shaped star formation in surprising ways.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by ...
Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...
“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...
Stars form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), vast clouds of mostly hydrogen that can span tens of light years. These stellar ...