How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A newly processed Hubble image of the Eagle Nebula reveals a 9.5 light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust, shaped by radiation and winds from young stars ...

In context: Astronomers have been observing the wheel-shaped nebula NGC 1514 for over three centuries. In 1790, William Herschel described it as the first deep-sky object that looked cloudy.

This 2024 image from NASA’s Webb Telescope reveals the star cluster NGC 602 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, with candidates ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated Messier 57 (also known as NGC 6720), dubbed the Ring Nebula.