A newborn star buried deep inside the Orion Nebula is feeding on a giant, dusty “space hamburger,” researchers have discovered. This astronomical sandwich is actually an accretion disk, or a cloud of ...

Before something like the Solar System can be born, things in the general neighborhood start out as something known as a protostellar disk. These objects are essentially flat accretions of dust and ...

Researchers have found that baby stars discharge plumes of gas, dust, and magnetic flux from their protostellar disk. The protostellar disk that surrounds developing stars are constantly penetrated by ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Astronomers theorize that stars and their planets are born when a ...

Protostellar jets were detected for the first time using ALMA in the Milky Way’s outer region, showing that star formation works similarly in distant, low-metallicity regions, whereas the chemistry ...

Astronomers have observed flows of cold gas feeding the formation of stars in a multiple-protostar system Flows of cold gas falling onto two of three protostars in a stellar nursery about 450 light ...

The protostellar object OH 339.88-1.26, which lies 8 900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara, lurks in this dust-filled image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Winding lanes of ...

Astronomers figured out where powerful jets come from on a baby star called HH 211. This is about 1,000 light-years away in the Perseus constellation. The discovery sheds light on the early stages of ...

A newborn star buried deep inside the Orion Nebula is feeding on a giant, dusty "space hamburger," researchers have discovered. This astronomical sandwich is actually an accretion disk, or a cloud of ...