the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered the hidden mysteries of the W51 star-forming region, giving astronomers an unprecedented view of young, massive stars that were previously obscured ...

The Orion A region has never looked as colorful and vibrant.

The Milky Way’s star-forming disc has no sharp boundary. It just fades away at its outer edges. The bulk of our galaxy’s stars are born within 40,000 light-years of the galactic center, according to a ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

Left: section of the MIRI image. Right: section of the NIRCam image. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of ...

How far the Milky Way's disk extends has long been difficult to define—it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at its outer edges. Now, for the first time, an international team of ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

Scientists have uncovered the true boundary of the Milky Way’s star-forming region using stellar “age mapping.” They found a telltale U-shaped pattern showing that star formation drops sharply around ...