An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have found the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes at the centre of ...

Eleven infant stars observed near supermassive blackhole at Milky Way's centre -- an ALMA image. ALMA ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Yusef-Zadeh et al.; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF Some 26,000 light-years away, the ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Professor Woong-bae Zee of the College of Liberal Studies at Sejong University has revealed that a galaxy does not possess only a single evolutionary pathway; instead, depending on the nature of its ...

NGC 346 – a cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (Nasa/ESA/CSA/STScl) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released yet another new image, ...

The formation of stars is intricately linked to the complex structure and dynamics of molecular clouds—vast, cold, and dense regions in the interstellar medium that primarily consist of molecular ...

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When most people gaze up on a clear, dark night, they are struck by how many stars there are. Astronomers have an opposite reaction: They marvel at the stars’ amazing scarcity. Considering the total ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released yet another new image, providing new insights into how stars formed in the early universe more than 10 billion years ago. The image shows a young ...

Why it's so special: This stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope depicts a star-forming region called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short. Characterized by its "wings," it is classified as a ...

It shows a young cluster of stars NGC 346, which is more than 200,000 light-years from Earth. NGC 346 – a cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud taken by the James Webb Space Telescope ...