Neutral gas inside the prestellar core L1544 was measured moving slightly faster than charged gas, providing the first clear ...

・Andromeda has been forming fewer stars for about 500 million years, with an especially sharp drop recently. ・Most of the slowdown comes from declining activity in a huge ring where much of the galaxy ...

Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, astronomers have revealed for the first time the huge flow of gas near a massive star in the making that allows its rapid growth. By ...

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible to us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more than 330,000 times that of our Earth, and yet there are stars in the universe ...

Massive stars, those exceeding eight solar masses, originate in the densest regions of molecular clouds through a complex interplay of gravity, turbulence and magnetic fields. Within giant molecular ...

Molecular clouds are vast reservoirs of cold gas in which stars form through a complex interplay of supersonic turbulence, self-gravity, magnetic fields and stellar feedback. Turbulent motions within ...