star formation

Webb spots brown dwarfs just twice Jupiter’s mass

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured one of its largest public images to date — a sweeping near-infrared mosaic of IC 348, a star-forming region roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus. Featured by NASA on Tuesday,…

Study finds active black holes may boost star formation

A study published September 15 in The Astrophysical Journal has found that actively feeding supermassive black holes may contribute to star formation in their host galaxies rather than suppress it, challenging a widely held view of how galaxies evolve.

Hubble captures massive ‘superbubble’ in nearby galaxy

NASA and the European Space Agency have released a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope revealing a massive "superbubble" carved into a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors.

Hubble data links Andromeda’s star formation decline to smaller neighbor galaxy

Astronomers have found that the Andromeda galaxy's ability to forge new stars has dropped sharply over the last 40 million years, with a smaller neighboring galaxy emerging as the prime suspect behind the slowdown.

Scientists detect ‘cosmic drift’ that triggers star birth for the first time

An international team of astrophysicists has for the first time detected an observational signature of ambipolar diffusion — a subtle velocity difference between ions and neutral molecules — inside a prestellar core, offering a direct glimpse into the physical mechanism…

Ghost particle traced to star-forming galaxy 11B light-years away

Astronomers have linked a high-energy neutrino detected by the IceCube Observatory in Antarctica to a distant, dust-choked galaxy 11 billion light-years away — a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about where the universe's most elusive particles originate.