An international team of researchers under the leadership of Dr. Florian Peißker at the University of Cologne's Institute of Astrophysics has discovered a very young star in its formation phase near ...

Baby stars don't always play nice with their siblings. New observations show an outflow of high-speed gas from one baby star colliding with a nearby dense cloud of gas where other stars are in the ...

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 ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon an incredible cosmic chain reaction: a young star launched a high-speed jet that ignited an explosion, creating a massive bubble in space that is now slamming back into ...

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This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's infrared vision reveals new details in protostars. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez If you enjoy holiday light displays, check out this brilliant ...

A star, hiding in plain sight within a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, is one big baby. Stars fascinate astronomers. Not all of them are like our Sun, the 4.6-billion-year-old heart of the ...

Astronomers recently came across a star hiding a secret. A protostar in a distant stellar nursery called the Aquila Rift had a twisted magnetic field, and researchers weren’t sure why. Behind a veil ...