"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

Which extreme stellar objects could actually support life? In this video, we explore the most bizarre and powerful cosmic bodies—black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs—and rank them by ...

In the latter, the star explodes, destroying the original star. T Coronae Borealis is a binary system with a red giant and a white dwarf. The white dwarf is a thief, stealing material from its ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

But astronomers routinely measure the speeds of stellar objects. How they do it, it turns out, is grounded in everyday experience. Ever noticed how the pitch of an ambulance's siren or a train's ...

What made the finding of the new ices surprising was their isolation—such ices are typically found in stellar nurseries. In this new effort, the researchers took a new look at two icy objects by ...

Next the scientists assembled a dataset covering 17 distinct molecular clouds associated with massive young stellar objects. While coordinating this data from multiple programs can be challenging ...

In the stellar remnants of a supernova ... Astronomers also suspect that a class of objects called intermediate-mass black holes exist in the universe, although evidence for them is so far ...