The "cooling-flow problem" in galaxy clusters involves a discrepancy between the predicted rapid cooling of hot gas leading to intense star formation in central galaxies and the observed lack thereof ...

Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We're driven to understand nature and how it evolved from a super-heated plasma after the Big Bang to the structured cosmos we ...

Astronomers have gained insights into star formation by capturing the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar ...

The James Webb telescope has imaged one of the more dramatic stellar nurseries in the galaxy called Pismis 24.

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible to us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more than 330,000 times that of our Earth, and yet there are stars in the universe ...

NGC 3603-A1 is a pair of giant stars locked in a rapid 3.8-day orbit. Their dynamic relationship provides clues to how ...

Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University in China, and his colleagues were combing through catalogs of stars in search of cold brown dwarfs, interstellar objects that fall somewhere between ...

Star-forming nebulae are powerful producers of H-alpha light, and several of these regions can be identified across NGC 45 by their bright pink-red color. These observing programs aimed to study star ...

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Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Back in 2022, the Hubble space telescope appeared to have found the most ...