The Orion Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the night sky. It’s also a hotbed for star formation, with hundreds of stars spread out across a relatively small patch. Data from the James Webb ...
The Orion Nebula is famous for its beauty, but it was also the site of a recent exciting scientific discovery. The James Webb Space Telescope has detected an important molecule in a planet-forming ...
According to astronomers, these types of aging stars produce large amounts of cosmic dust and spread it into space.
A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...
Ultraviolet “winds” from nearby massive stars are stripping the gas from a young star’s protoplanetary disk, causing it to rapidly lose mass, according to a new study. It reports the first directly ...
JWST/MIRI images showing the extended nebular emission around NGC 6720's central star in 3 filters. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.01188 Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an ...
Recent simulations explore how complex organic molecules may form and be delivered to Europa and Ganymede via Jupiter’s ...
Nebulae are some of the most beautiful structures to be found in space: vast clouds of dust and gas that are illuminated by light from nearby stars. These regions are often busy sites of star ...