"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

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 ...

This process increases its mass, leading to even more efficient gas accretion and accelerated star formation. However, galaxies do not grow indefinitely, due to a process astronomers refer to as ...

Almost all stars form in binary and multiple systems and so correctly predicting their properties in one of the best tests of star formation models. We are conducting hydrodynamic simulations of star ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light ...

It has now been observed for the first time that strong magnetic fields play an important role in suppressing star formation, explains astrophysicist John Bally. This was possible because the ...

But something strange is happening there: the rate of star formation is lower than it seems like it should be. With thick clouds of dust and gas, the Sagittarius C region should be bursting with ...

This vast reservoir of cool molecular gas is found in the protocluster known as SPT2349-56, located 12 billion light-years away, and could power an intense burst of star formation in the baby ...

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