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Astronomers Get Rare Peek at Early Stage of Star Formation
March 14, 2012 — Astronomers are excited to get their first look at a clump of gas they think is about to start forming stars. Unlike others seen, this one is "pristine," unaffected by the violent stellar winds and ... > full story -
Recycling Galaxies Caught in the Act
March 14, 2012 — When astronomers add up all the gas and dust contained in ordinary galaxies (like our own Milky Way), they find a discrepancy: there is not nearly enough matter for stars to form at the observed ... > full story -
Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust
February 29, 2012 — Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The ... > full story -
Analyses of a Tiny Comet Grain Dates Jupiter's Formation
March 1, 2012 — Particles from comet 81P/Wild 2 brought to Earth in 2006 by NASA's Stardust spacecraft indicate that Jupiter formed more than three million years after the formation of the first solids in our Solar ... > full story -
New Model Provides Different Take on Planetary Accretion: Collapse May Take Place in 3-D Cold Dust Cloud
February 29, 2012 — The prevailing model for planetary accretion assumes that the solar system's planets formed in an extremely hot, two-dimensional disk of gas and dust, post-dating the sun. Scientists now propose a ... > full story -
Sheep in Wolf-Rayet's Clothing: New Image of Planetary Nebula Hen 3-1333
February 20, 2012 — It's well known that the universe is changeable: even the stars that appear static and predictable every night are subject to change. A new image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows planetary ... > full story -
Newborn Stars Emerge from Dark Clouds in Taurus
February 15, 2012 — A new image from the APEX telescope in Chile shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. In it, newborn stars are hidden, and dense clouds of gas are on the verge of ... > full story -
Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula Ever
February 8, 2012 — ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial ... > full storyMore: -
Stellar Nursery: A Pocket of Star Formation
February 1, 2012 — A new view shows a stellar nursery called NGC 3324. It was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The intense ultraviolet radiation ... > full story -
Helix Nebula in New Colors
January 19, 2012 — Astronomers have captured a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. A new picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are invisible in images taken in visible light, as ... > full story
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