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.

Different stages of star formation can be measured in different ways, a number of which involve so-called emission lines – narrow regions within the electromagnetic spectrum where an object emits much ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This barred spiral galaxy NGC 2283 exhibits a bright central bar of stars encircled by loosely ...

By looking far into the universe’s past, astronomers hope to use James Webb’s various instruments to provide more details about the earliest stages of star formation. By doing so, they could ...

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

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 better understand the origin and formation of new stars. Most previous ...

The results were obtained from observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud and may provide a new perspective on star formation throughout the history of the universe. In our Milky Way galaxy ...