A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...

A new image of a proplyd with a comet-like appearance has deepened the mystery of these radiation-proof planetary nurseries. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by low-intermediate mass stars late in their lives can come in ...

Ultraviolet “winds” from nearby massive stars are stripping the gas from a young star’s protoplanetary disk, causing it to rapidly lose mass, according to a new study. It reports the first directly ...

Do you remember the first time you truly discovered the universe? When I was a teenager, many moons ago, I bought my first telescope, a Celestron 8. I remember excitedly unboxing it the day it arrived ...

JWST/MIRI images showing the extended nebular emission around NGC 6720's central star in 3 filters. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.01188 Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an ...

The Ring Nebula is a well-known space icon shaped like a doughnut about 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. But astronomers think it's been holding a secret that only the penetrating ...

A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new ...

This celestial wonder sits unassumingly near the head of the northern constellation Cepheus the King within 20° of the North ...