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

An animation switches between a Hubble and JWST observation of the Flame Nebula, a nearby star-forming nebula less than 1 million years old. In this comparison, three low-mass objects are highlighted.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous ...

On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns to find in the sky. Its identifying feature is a row of three stars which make up the belt of the legendary hunter, Orion. Above the ...

Discover the stages of star formation, shedding light on the processes that illuminate our universe. In the vastness of space, nebulae—massive clouds of gas and dust—drift in stillness.

It is made up of two stars much more massive than the sun and surrounded by a beautiful nebula, a cloud of gas and dust. "A nebula surrounding two massive stars is a rarity, and it really made us ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores ...

The star system consists of a red giant and a white dwarf companion. Crab Nebula: In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used Hubble to ...