Rolf Landauer showed that "information is physical" with every bit equivalent to a small amount of energy proportional to ...

The Rosette Nebula is a star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy that looks like a rose. It's located in the Monoceros constellation, about 5,000 light years from Earth.

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

In the ALMAGAL project, an international research team will analyze observations of more than a thousand "star factories" to ...

Astronomers have found an unexpectedly bright and chemically complex galaxy from the first 300 million years of the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope captured these tightly-knit groupings of young stars illuminating the hydrogen gas that surrounds them, which is the primary fuel source for star formation along ...