Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in the universe.

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

These ejections create shock waves as they collide with existing interstellar material, gradually shaping a nebula’s structure. LBN 483 is a prime example of this process. The bipolar outflows from ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

This nebula is a busy stellar nursery ... Stars and brown dwarfs form from large clouds of material called molecular clouds, which break apart into small chunks called fragments.

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

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 ...